On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 21:22 +0100, . wrote: > So now that GNOME 3.8 has "Classic Mode"[1] I'll see how loud my > notebook's fan gets, since from the picture it seems that it uses 3D > acceleration. 3D acceleration was always something which gets my (and my > friends') notebook fan very loud and decreases battery time. 3D for > desktop, at least for older notebooks, is unnecessary (I don't know if > >=Sandy Bridge notebook are louder too when using 3D). > [1] https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.8/ Sounds like a hardware/driver issue to me. I use GNOME Shell on a 6+ year old Toshiba laptop with a lame Intel i9xx series GPU. The laptop runs cool and long; there is not excessive utilization. -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
