From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Emil Velikov Subject: Re: GeForce 8400 GS Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:04:01 +0100 Message-ID: <524DE9D1.3040303@gmail.com> References: <1380825934.841834684@f291.i.mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1380825934.841834684-MnY5EB7xCO9sdVUOrk1QfQ@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org To: Fernando Negro , nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org On 03/10/13 19:45, Fernando Negro wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I read on a 2011 article - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_comp_2011&num=19 - that my particular card, GeForce 8400 GS, overheats with nouveau. (So, I never tried using if for long, before, as soon as possible, installing the proprietary drivers...) But, because it's a 2-year-old article, I was wondering if that problem could have been, in the meantime, solved?... (Can anyone tell me if that is so, or not - or indicate me a place where I can know that?) > > Thank you, all, in advance. > Hi Fernando, The idea of overheating is quite subjective and heavily depends on how sane the OEM was. But to put a long story short 1. Nouveau does not change the clock frequencies and voltage (among a few others) which may cause higher than desired temperature for some users. 2. Thermal management has been available for a while now although it's disabled by default. You would need to enable it manually see [1] [2] I would personally give nouveau a try if I was in your case and check the temperature via (lm_)sensors. Hope that helps, Emil [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg31902.html [2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/tree/Documentation/thermal/nouveau_thermal