Solutions for overheating with the new gnome ?

[R Kimber]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:44:35 +0200
Pop Horea-Vasile wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a laptop msi cx623 -- CPU: i3-390M, VGA: NVIDIA Geforce 310M/1GB 
> DDR3 wth Linux Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot -- 11.10.
> What do you know about water cooling for laptops ?
> Can it be done and how ?
> Clearly something it must be done regarding this problem of to many 
> degrees. What to tell abot global waming and the traditional cooling 
> system that keeps the temperature of the processor above enviroment temp 
> with 40 C in reality.

I'm not sure it's the new Gnome per se, as the subject implies.  I think
it's the new kernel.  Try using an older kernel.

I use xfce and find that the new kernel runs 5-10 degrees hotter than
previous ones.  I'm currently using 2.6.38-10-generic.

- Richard.
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