On 08/15/10 17:45, David C. Rankin wrote:
What type of video card do you have?
Intel 945 class -- it's one of the first to get KMS and the support is excellent by now. I never ever get slow graphics (although I don't play games much... IIRC extremetuxracer works fine...)
If you can identify anything on your box that seems to influence the idle temps or fan noise
Actually, my fan mostly didn't speed up, instead the temp (if this is real) got hotter, so I manually adjusted it up a bit (via some macbook-fan-specific mechanism), but maybe it's the same thing (macbook linux are long known to run the fan a little slower than might be nice, by default, anyway).
Check your battery life. My battery life isn't noticeably lower than before, which makes me doubt whether more energy is actually being used (and correspondingly turned into heat).
