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saneks

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 1,020

Overheating Issues Acer Travelmate 5740 & no Wireless

So my Acer Travelmate 5740 with Waldorf 64bit is getting really hot and shuts down (instant poweroff) all the time after 1-2 hours with some browsing tabs open, sometimes even when I put something under it to have better ventilation. fan runs all the time.. this thing has 4 processors, which seem to work always. tried 2 other distros, same heat problems..  googled a bit and searched the forum but have no idea what to do -

I tried this: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=23445

oh, and the wireless is not detected in crunchbang either.. (it works fine in mint and porteus)

here is the output of uname -r and lspci -knn

pretty impossible to work on this machine under these circumstances -- any ideas appreciated..

saneks@crunchbang:~$ lspci -knn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port [8086:0045] (rev 02)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 05)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 05)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b09] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b29] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
	Kernel driver in use: intel ips
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Madison [Radeon HD 5000M Series] [1002:68c1]
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
	Kernel driver in use: radeon
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5000 Series] [1002:aa60]
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1692] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
	Kernel driver in use: tg3
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. T77H103.00 Wireless Half-size Mini PCIe Card [105b:e021]
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]

saneks@crunchbang:~$ uname -r
3.2.0-4-amd64

Last edited by saneks (2013-02-22 23:09:09)

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blueled

Member

From: bham

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 34

Re: Overheating Issues Acer Travelmate 5740 & no Wireless

Try this for your wifi:

http://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211

Unfortunately I can't help for the overheating issues you are experiencing.