BETA3 running *hot* on my Acer 5553g (AMD Mobile Phenom)

[Mathias Picker]

On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 17:00 +0100, Jean-S?bastien P?dron wrote:
> On 13.11.2013 13:16, Mathias Picker wrote:
> > This laptop allways was quite hot, but with 9-stable it ran around 52C
> > when idle...
> > Now this is up to 60C, and when I actually use it the temp reaches 94C
> > and it only survivies through throttling the cpu.
> > 
> > I've switched of the descrete graphics card (which doesn't work with kms
> > anyway) and use the hd4200 on the motherboard only. (see
> > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29448)
> 
> Have you had a chance to run Linux 3.10 (or earlier, but not 3.11+) on
> it? Or read any reports of that version of Linux on this laptop?

Not yet. I will try this with a live cd over the weekend.

But the laptop is running hot even without X startet, about 5 degree
hotter than with 9-stable...

Thanks for the idea I will try linux 3.10 and 3.11+ to see how much this
changes.

Cheers, Mathias

> 
> I don't know if this could be related, but the Radeon kernel driver in
> Linux before 3.11 (FreeBSD's driver is based on 3.8) doesn't support
> many power management features. That's why I'm asking about Linux behavior.
>