On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 20:37 +0530, Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote: > On 19/02/19 7:35 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 18:32 +0530, Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote: > > > On 19/02/19 6:27 PM, George N. White III wrote: > > > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 02:50, Sudheer Satyanarayana < > > > > sudheer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:sudheer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I have installed Fedora 29 on Lenovo W540. The laptop overheats up > > > > soon > > > > after booting. > > > > > > > > > > > > You should make sure there isn't an accumulation of dust preventing > > > > proper cooling. At > > > > my work there were a bunch of Lenovo's that would overheat and crash. > > > > A good blast of > > > > canned air in the vents would release a cloud of dust and restore > > > > proper operation. This > > > > had to be done every few months (typical cubicle farm environment). > > > > > > > Initially, I suspected hardware issues like the one you mention. In > > > fact, I sent the device to Lenovo service center for the same issue. The > > > Lenovo folks inspected the hardware and found no issues with fan, > > > cooling, etc. Also, the same device doesn't have the overheating issue > > > on Windows and Ubuntu. It is something specific to Fedora. > > Something in the graphics driver? > Probably. > > What GPU does it have? > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK106GLM [Quadro > K2100M] (rev a1) > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core > Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) > > > Is the same > > driver being used on Fedora and Ubuntu? (I'm reaching here). > Sorry, I do not have the information about what driver was used on > Ubuntu. The test was done by a colleague few days ago and they did use > the drivers that were available on stock installation of Ubuntu 18.10. The GPU is Nvidia so it would be interesting to see if Ubuntu is using the proprietary Nvidia driver while Fedora has the Nouveau driver. Try "lsmod|grep -i nvidia". You could also install the Fedora Nvidia driver from RPMfusion to see if it makes a difference. > > Is the > > machine overheating even when idle? > Yes. > > Does it overheat if you boot to a > > text console rather than the DE? > I have not tested this. But I will soon and let you know how it goes. > Thanks for the idea. > > Is the DE using X or Wayland? > > Wayland. Maybe try an X11 DE instead. You can choose the DE at login time, e.g. if you're on Gnome then it's Wayland by default but can also run on X. Other DEs such as KDE work better on X at the moment. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
