Hp Pavilion Heating up and Battery gets reduced quickly

Asked by Gaurav Dighe

Hello,

I have HP Pavilion G6-2007TX laptop. I have done clean installation of Ubuntu - Desktop 64bit on it..
My laptop gets heated up drastically . Even the battery doesn't survive long. When I was having Windows 8 64 bit, there was no such problem.

Also my laptop contains - IDT Dolby High Definition Sound Driver, but I am not able to find any drivers for Ubuntu for the same. The default driver with Ubuntu is not up to the mark.

Could anyone please provide me solution over this.

Regards.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

What is the output of :

sudo dmidecode -t 1; sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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Gaurav Dighe (gauravdighe) said :
#2

Below is the output of sudo dmidecode -t 1; sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a
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[sudo] password for gaurav:
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.7 present.

Handle 0x0009, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
 Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
 Product Name: HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC
 Version: 0798100000205010000610100
 Serial Number: 5CD2116Z2B
 UUID: 32444335-3131-5A36-3242-80C16E505326
 Wake-up Type: Power Switch
 SKU Number: B0P26PA#ACJ
 Family: 103C_5335KV G=N L=CON B=HP S=PAV X=Null

  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Thames XT/GL [Radeon HD 7600M Series]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
       resources: irq:47 memory:40000000-4fffffff memory:62000000-6201ffff ioport:4000(size=256) memory:62020000-6203ffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:45 memory:63000000-633fffff memory:50000000-5fffffff ioport:5000(size=64)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
Codename: quantal
Linux gaurav 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Kindly help me resolving the problem of :
1. Overheating : its heated so much that, you cannot touch the base of laptop
2. Battery consumption : Battery gets reduced quickly
3. IDT Sound Drivers officially came with HP. But i am not able to find one for Ubuntu. Default sound of Ubuntu is very very low.
4. How to protect my PC from virus/intruders.
5. Display driver is AMD Raedon 7600 HD with 3d. But i am not able to configure it in Ubuntu.

I have not faced such problem on Windows 8 Pro.

Kindly help me.

i really loved the OS. If these issues can be sorted out, then I think its best in the market.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

You have a switchable GPU which can cause all manner of Hell in Linux. Nvidia and AMD both stated they would not be supporting anything but Windows but then Nvidia did subsequently join thrle Lunux Foundation. This is the only link I know that may help.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HybridGraphics

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#4

You don't need AV in Linux unless you run a mail server or a file server with Windows clients
http://librenix.com/?inode=21

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Gaurav Dighe (gauravdighe) said :
#5

Hey...
My question was "My battery gets reduced drastically and Laptop Temperature rises very much".

If I use Windows 8 Pro, they battery would easily survive for an average 3 Hours, but with Ubuntu it would hardly survive for 1.5 Hrs.

So any help from Ubuntu on this.

Also the temperature of the laptop rises so much that I hardly can touch the base of laptop. It didn't happen with Windows 8.

So Kindly help in getting these issues resolved. If nothing can be done, I afraid that I might need to go back to Microsoft.

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said :
#6

Hi Gaurav Dighe (gauravdighe),

I will try to answer as much as I can to your multiple questions . Shortly.

1) Try to install the closed source drivers (AMD/ATI) and see if this helps. Open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and apply the following commands:
     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get upgrade
     sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates
     sudo amdconfig --initial -f
Reboot your system and re-check the temperature. Also you can open the Catalyst control center and search for some option related to performance..

2) Same as above , when you install successfully the AMD/ATI driver and Catalyst control center , search for some option related to performance and reduce it. Also the screen back-light matters here. Try to reduce it as well.

3) Drivers that are exist in Windows , are not exist in Linux.(I mean you cannot install a Windows driver in Linux).
Open the "sound settings" and try to increase the sound beyond 100%.

4) Safety in Linux is not the same as Windows. Viruses ... etc are not "survive" in a Linux environment because 95% of them are written for a Windows OS. Although if you want an antivirus , some of them exist in Linux. Search in software center for antivirus and you will see.

5) same answer as 1 & 2. Install the closed source driver (by issuing the above commands one by one) and reboot your system.

Regards
 NikTh

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