According to the nvidia-settings application, my XPS M1330 idles at 40 Celsius. Even watching full screen video, it doesn't get significantly hotter than this.
I have the latest A15 BIOS installed and have the nvidia-glx driver 180.44-0ubuntu1 installed from the Jaunty repository. I set the devices section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as shown below in an attempt to allow dynamic GPU scaling:
According to the nvidia-settings application, my XPS M1330 idles at 40 Celsius. Even watching full screen video, it doesn't get significantly hotter than this.
I have the latest A15 BIOS installed and have the nvidia-glx driver 180.44-0ubuntu1 installed from the Jaunty repository. I set the devices section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as shown below in an attempt to allow dynamic GPU scaling:
Section "Device" le=0x1; PerfLevelSrc= 0x3333; PowerMizerLevel AC=0x3; PowerMizerLevel =0x3" Interrupts" "True"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8400M GS"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
Option "BackingStore" "False"
Option "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerEnab
Option "OnDemandVBlank
Option "Coolbits" "1"
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