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submitted 1 year ago by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I dont really want to use that proprietary driver, but I plan on getting an old Thinkpad W530 that has some probably pretty slow NVIDIA GPU. Do you know if these are well supported by Noveau? Would be great!

I want to play around with coreboot, flashing heads onto that laptop and all.

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[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The overheating isn't much of an issue in other cases. When I'm not building packages, the temperature is on safe level. I've also ran Debian & Linux Mint on it with no issue (with nouveau)

I don't have any writeup on it, unfortunately...

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, the fans should kick up to highest level. I remember thinkpadfancontrol on windows, great software. This never happened and on Linux I never had my fans at level 7 no matter the heat

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The fan did maxed out. Seems it's not enough. Maybe it's the hot weather. The AC helps a lot. I'll also be checking the thermal paste soon.

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