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Date:      Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:22:39 +0530
From:      Saniya Maheshwari <saniya.mah@gmail.com>
To:        Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Heating issues with FreeBSD on laptop
Message-ID:  <R7ZUIR.R00PYTBJHUMA3@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20220927072645.6b7c3c301d856cdd4bf9398b@sohara.org>
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On Tue, Sep 27 2022 at 07:26:45 AM +0100 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith 
<steve@sohara.org> wrote:
>> 
> 	The first thought is - does it show these symptoms in other
> operating systems (try a few bootable images) ? If it does then you're
> probably looking at a hardware problem - most likely the heatsink is 
> no
> longer in good thermal contact with the CPU.

Over the last couple of months I tried a lot of Linux distros on this 
laptop, and I got this sort of heating issue only due to some issue in 
the Intel Graphics / NVIDIA driver. For example with an Ubuntu 
installation it was a case of outdated drivers for both - I upgraded 
both the kernel and the NVIDIA driver and then it got solved. And then 
in an Arch Linux installation I got the same heating problem when 
NVIDIA open-sourced their driver (the new driver had some issues), and 
following some advice it got resolved by adding ibt=off in the kernel 
parameters. And as I mentioned in a previous mail, this laptop is new 
and I have dual booted it with Fedora Linux which runs completely okay, 
so I don't think this is a hardware issue ...

> 	If not then we're chasing a FreeBSD problem. It may well be
> worthwhile installing the GPU driver, certainly worth trying - there 
> are a
> *lot* of nvidia driver packages so read the docs carefully to get the 
> right
> one.

I'll go through the NVIDIA driver packages then. Thank you for the 
pointer!

Thanks again for your help!

Saniya
> 


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<div id=3D"geary-body" dir=3D"auto"><div><br></div></div><div id=3D"geary-q=
uote" dir=3D"auto"><br>On Tue, Sep 27 2022 at 07:26:45 AM +0100 +0100, Stev=
e O'Hara-Smith &lt;steve@sohara.org&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote type=3D"cite"=
><div class=3D"plaintext" style=3D"white-space: break-spaces;"><blockquote>=
</blockquote>
	The first thought is - does it show these symptoms in other
operating systems (try a few bootable images) ? If it does then you're
probably looking at a hardware problem - most likely the heatsink is no
longer in good thermal contact with the CPU.&nbsp;</div></blockquote><span =
style=3D"white-space: break-spaces;"><div><span style=3D"white-space: break=
-spaces;"><br></span></div>Over the last couple of months I tried a lot of =
Linux distros on this laptop, and I got this sort of heating issue only due=
 to some issue in the Intel Graphics / NVIDIA driver. For example with an U=
buntu installation it was a case of outdated drivers for both - I upgraded =
both the kernel and the NVIDIA driver and then it got solved. And then in a=
n Arch Linux installation I got the same heating problem when NVIDIA open-s=
ourced their driver (the new driver had some issues), and following some ad=
vice it got resolved by adding ibt=3Doff in the kernel parameters. And as I=
 mentioned in a previous mail, this laptop is new and I have dual booted it=
 with Fedora Linux which runs completely okay, so I don't think this is a h=
ardware issue ...</span><div><div><br><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div class=
=3D"plaintext" style=3D"white-space: break-spaces;">	If not then we're chas=
ing a FreeBSD problem. It may well be
worthwhile installing the GPU driver, certainly worth trying - there are a
*lot* of nvidia driver packages so read the docs carefully to get the right
one.</div></blockquote><span style=3D"white-space: break-spaces;"><div><spa=
n style=3D"white-space: break-spaces;"><br></span></div>I'll go through the=
 NVIDIA driver packages then. Thank you for the pointer!</span></div><div><=
span style=3D"white-space: break-spaces;"><br></span></div><div><span style=
=3D"white-space: break-spaces;">Thanks again for your help!</span></div><di=
v><span style=3D"white-space: break-spaces;"><br></span></div><div><span st=
yle=3D"white-space: break-spaces;">Saniya</span></div><div><blockquote type=
=3D"cite"><div class=3D"plaintext" style=3D"white-space: break-spaces;"></d=
iv></blockquote></div></div></div>
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