<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:26 PM, John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> For anyone that is interested, I checked the GPU temperature while at the<br>
> recordings menu (45C), watching an mpeg recording (57C) and watching an H264<br>
> recording (55C). This was while using the VDPAU High Quality rendering<br>
> profile. The fan never went above 25%. So this doesn't look like a heat<br>
> problem.<br>
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</div>My fanless 8400GS runs much hotter but it is supposedly fine up to 120C<br>
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John<br>
<br></blockquote><div>I wanted to follow up on a possible fix (at least for me) and thought it might be useful for others. Searching dmesg I found that I had XID errors coming from the nvida module when this problem occurred. Searching for XID errors, I found this link on one of the Ubuntu forums (<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1163786">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1163786</a>). This led me to try adding this option to the nvidia module (in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf):<br>
<br>options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords="PerfLevelSrc=0x2222"<br><br>I did this four days ago and have yet to see the same failure. I'm also pretty sure my problem is not heat related. I've never seen my GPU go over 57C. I'll post again if the problem resurfaces.<br>
<br>-- Ken E.<br></div></div>