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On Saturday 02 May 2009 16:23:48 Stroller wrote: |
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> On 2 May 2009, at 09:39, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: |
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> >> ... |
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> >> Looks like an overheating GPU to me. |
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> >> |
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> >> Do you have accelerated graphics on for those panels? |
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> >> I'll bet if you turn it off the problem will disappear. |
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> > |
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> > Say, bottom panel hasn't something special: std menu, lancelot, |
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> > tasks, tray |
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> > and clock. Can overheating be such selectable? - I mean only KDE4 |
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> > panels- |
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> > related problem takes place (say, my sone plays few games without any |
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> > problems, as well as, say, OOo/Qt/KDE and so on emerging ). And I |
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> > didn't |
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> > overclocked something. But have added few additional silent coolers |
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> > inside a |
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> > case :-) |
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> |
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> Can overheating be so selective? I can't say for sure, but I can't see |
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> it having so much work to do when displaying the wallpaper as if those |
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> panels fade or slide. I presume they can be auto-hidden one way or the |
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> other when not in use, and that effects would be enabled by default if |
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> you have GPU acceleration available. |
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> Speckles are somewhat characteristic, and most any videogamer will |
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> recognise them - once you've had a graphics card or a Playstation |
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> (type) console die on you, they are very recognisable. |
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> The emerging won't have any effect on speckles, only GPU-related |
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> activity. It depends on the particular games that your son plays |
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> whether I'd say they're relevant. I'm no expert on Linux graphics (I |
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> don't use it on the desktop myself), but I'd guess TuxRacer probably |
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> does use the GPU whereas Frozen Bubble does not. |
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> If you're able to turn the GPU's acceleration features off in X11 (or |
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> the kernel?) and just treat it as a framebuffer device, then please |
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> prove me wrong! |
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> |
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> Stroller. |
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OK, as Stroller has suggested, I have cleaned heatsink, replaced heat- |
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conducting paste and so on. Now it would be nice to have something for quick |
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GPU load testing (instead of long-long KDE session). Can anybody suggest an |
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appropriate sw or, may be, some game with "hard and heavy" (wrt GPU load) |
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demo? |
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