[HELP]. Shutdown when running "graphically intensive" applications

wron100

wron100

Hi guys. My laptop constantly shuts down every time I run a "demanding" gui. It started with shutting down when running Firefox, I then tried other browsers but the problem was consistent. Application starts, tries opening Gmail or YouTube, laptop shuts down. I've checked the logs and only the last action done on my PC shows. Tried changing the drivers from drm-61-kmod to drm-515-kmod but neither solved it. Everything else works fine. Disabling hardware acceleration also doesn't work.
 
Phishfry said:
To confirm that diagnostic I would run sysutils/stress from the command prompt.

Just to make sure its not a GUI/Graphical Driver problem.

Does the laptop use discreet graphics or does it have a external GPU?
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Discrete. I've run stress too and the thermals peak between 91-95°. The laptop does not shutdown. I've also tried cleaning the dust on the fans. This is not an issue on Windows (which I assume consumes more power than freebsd) or Linux.
 
Well since you have already tried both i915kms drivers maybe you could try the built in scfb Xorg driver to try and isolate the issue.

With stress running OK you can eliminate ACPI.thermal problems you might see. 95C is near thermal junction for most Intel CPU but I assume this is loading all cores.
If that runs for a couple of minutes OK then you can probably look at software problems.

Unload i915kms and give scfb a try. It may not be accelerated but it is good for chasing problems.
 
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