Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting reminder: Tuesday 14th April @ 7:30pm
What: the Canterbury Linux Users' Group's monthly meeting (for April) When: 7:30 pm Tuesday April 14th 2009 Where: St Albans Community Resource Centre, 1047 Colombo Street. ~~ Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting Questions, comments and comparisons are encouraged (as always). Main Talk Topic: Unknown - (Feel free to contribute suggestions?) And/Or possibly followed by BoF: socializing Feel free to gather with like-minded souls to mull over a discussion topic of your own choosing. Will still also need a volunteer tea maker. -Andrew
Re: my video card is possessed
Core 2 plus 2 x Nvidia Geforce 8600 driving 2 monitors both as SLI (gaming/XP) and otherwise (work/Gentoo). I have a fairly good quality full tower case with two input fans sucking in air across two drive arrays and extract with the main system fan. The trouble was that airflow wasn't really effective (a dead spot) over the GPU heatsinks. With latest Nvidia drivers packaging PhysX I started exhibiting heat issues in GPUs and nearby disk controller. I added a cheap free floating fan that just sits vertically on the floor of the case pointing across the GPU heatsinks towards some unused PCI slots I'd uncovered. Will fix the fan in place when I get a chance :-) Fan was a $10 120mm fan that could piggyback into the power feed for the disks. Cards went from around 70-90 degrees underload down to around a more acceptable 45-50 and problems disappeared. You could also disable PhysX if it's available as an option. If the system fan in your box isin't populated then heat is a strong suspect. A lot of off-the-shelf systems run just inside the margins to save cost. Quick confirmation of heat issues before spending money - point a deskfan or hairdryer (on cold) into affected areas in your open case and monitor temperature differences with Speedfan or Gkrellm under load. Aidan Gauland wrote: That sounds like my situation (the bit about passive cooling). I'll try that. Did you fix the fan in place, or just let it dangle? There's a place in my box for a "system fan", but there's not one there, so I'll get one. Also, could you tell me a little bit more about your graphics hardware? Thanks, Aidan Euan Clark wrote: I've noticed increased heat issues on both my GPUs on both XP & Gentoo - I think latest nvidia drivers push the cards harder (PhysX?) - they were passive cooling only so I dropped another fan in the box pointed across the cards and the issues have gone.
Re: my video card is possessed
On Sunday 05 April 2009 17:02:47 Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:40:13 +1200 > Aidan Gauland wrote: > > [snip] > Sounds to me like the fan's failed... If it is an older computer doing strange things it might be the battery on the motherboard. It wouldn't hurt to replace it.
Re: my video card is possessed
That sounds like my situation (the bit about passive cooling). I'll try that. Did you fix the fan in place, or just let it dangle? There's a place in my box for a "system fan", but there's not one there, so I'll get one. Also, could you tell me a little bit more about your graphics hardware? Thanks, Aidan Euan Clark wrote: I've noticed increased heat issues on both my GPUs on both XP & Gentoo - I think latest nvidia drivers push the cards harder (PhysX?) - they were passive cooling only so I dropped another fan in the box pointed across the cards and the issues have gone.
Re: Gnome convert
On Monday 06 April 2009 20:22:40 Nick Rout wrote: > sudo aptitude install xubuntu-desktop Or for an Ubuntu user who wants the latest Openoffice.. update-manager -d See http://www.ubuntugeek.com/upgrade-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex-to-ubuntu-904- jaunty-jackalope-beta.html I am currently using Kubuntu and used.. update-notifier-kde -d Worked pretty well for me. Rob
Re: Gnome convert
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:29 PM, yuri wrote: > 2009/4/6 Nick Rout: >> Have you tried xubuntu with xfce? Very capable desktop manager. > > I assume I could just run > sudo apt-get install xfce > and then choose xfce as my default session in the kdm login dialog? > Am I right in thinking that kde and gnome only chew up resources when > actually running? Or do they preload libs on boot-up? > > I would rather not install different distro just to try a different > gui. That would not be the *nix way of doing things. > > Yuri sudo aptitude install xubuntu-desktop
