Old Sony Vaio laptop with Fedora 30 gets very hot when playing videos!
I think this is because youtube generates videos in html5 that leverage chip hardware that my Sony Vaio (SZ730 with T8100 2.1GHz Penryn) and its ancient 10-year-old cpu don't have acceleration for?
When I play videos on my Toshiba with its newer Ivy Bridge i5-3210M CPU (2.5GHz) cpu, it's just fine thermally and that's using the wimpy integrated video hardware in the Ivy Bridge cpu.
Am I right? By heat I mean the entire body of the laptop gets so hot it's uncomfortable on the lap.
The only other thing is that the Sony is dual gpu (integrated into the Penryn and a discrete NVidia GT8400M GS) and maybe it's heated from the Nvidia?
What command can I use in Fedora to confirm if the Nvidia card is powered off? (that is, find out which of the IGP or the 8400M GS is being used)
I think this is because youtube generates videos in html5 that leverage chip hardware that my Sony Vaio (SZ730 with T8100 2.1GHz Penryn) and its ancient 10-year-old cpu don't have acceleration for?
When I play videos on my Toshiba with its newer Ivy Bridge i5-3210M CPU (2.5GHz) cpu, it's just fine thermally and that's using the wimpy integrated video hardware in the Ivy Bridge cpu.
Am I right? By heat I mean the entire body of the laptop gets so hot it's uncomfortable on the lap.
The only other thing is that the Sony is dual gpu (integrated into the Penryn and a discrete NVidia GT8400M GS) and maybe it's heated from the Nvidia?
What command can I use in Fedora to confirm if the Nvidia card is powered off? (that is, find out which of the IGP or the 8400M GS is being used)