> 1. Noise! > > Annoying.I found a few workarounds for the problem at the project > wiki. I liked the powertop approach, but sadly it didn't work for > me. A silly solution; I have mplayer playing my fav radio station > on another terminal (muted of-course)
A subset of what powertop suggests solves this for me, unless I connect an USB device. The processor.max_cstate=2 kernel argument might help in more cases, at a cost in battery life. I don't know any more proper solutions. > 2. Runs Hot > > It usually runs hot when I watch a movie or two. Not a big deal, > but it would be great if this can be improved. This might be an issue with the cooling assembly or thermal paste. Or is it hotter than before flashing libreboot? > Are there any tricks of the trade that you folks can share? One > particular idea that I have in mind is disabling devices that I > don't use (card-controller, ethernet, bluetooth and so on). Is it as > simple as black-listing the respective modules? Reduce backlight brightness? See what energy usage powertop shows and use it to e.g. disable unused devices?
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