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Author: Simon Walter
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] devuan installer and overheating

On 06/08/2016 12:15 PM, Simon Walter wrote:
> On 06/07/2016 07:38 PM, emninger@??? wrote:
>> Am Tue, 07 Jun 2016 08:33:08 +0000
>> schrieb Simon Walter <simon@???>:
>>
>>> I have not noticed this. What are the models of your notebook
>>> computers?
>>>
>>> You could do everyone a favour and debug it a little. Do you know
>>> which process was spinning the CPU?
>> a Samsung NP535U3C (amd processor and graphics)
>>
>> a Sony Vaio VPCF23S1E (Intel Core i7-2670QM (-HT-MCP-) NVIDIA GF108M)
>>
>> It always happened when it came to install the software tasks (desktop,
>> printserver, etc) - apt i'd presume. The fans are going crazy. At first
>> i thought it might be a problem related to the amd/ati graphics which
>> unfortunately do not work fine with the free driver. But now, i
>> realized this also on the Sony Vaio which has nothing to do with amd.
>> But indeed, on the Vaio it was a qemu installation - but otoh, just to
>> check, i compiled libre office from source and the machine never got
>> hotter than 60°. Installing Jessie in qemu the top heat was 87°!
>>
>> (How can i debug the installation?)
>
> Well, those are certainly powerful enough machines.
>
> Do you have a very fast Internet connection? I would assume the fans
> go crazy, but unless your room is very hot and the machines full of
> dust, they should not crash from overheating.
>
> Let me see...
>
> OK first of all, at least on the version I have
> (devuan-jessie-i386-alpha4-netboot.iso) there is no graphical
> installer. So it's most likely nothing to do with your graphics chip.


OK, well, I just tried the new BETA. It does have a graphical installer.
You might want to try the text version and see if there is any problem
with that.

I don't know why there is a graphical installer. My opinion is that If
it's not taking up too much developers time, then great, but it's really
not necessary. Hopefully no one is spending much time on it.

Simon