Jean Horten

Buy a Nvidia card. J.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grease

I had some overheating issues recently on a laptop running a GTX 770M which were unresolvable until I removed the heatsink and reinstalled it with fresh thermal paste. The old paste was dried out and crumbly and not capapble to transfer the heat correctly anymore. That machine runs approx 10°c cooler with the fresh paste and teh overheating issues are completely gone now. Looking at the op's description of what was found inside that computer I presume it's a little older and replacing the thermal paste never is a bad idea on older hardware. Even having it replaced by some pc service shop if you can't perform that servicing yourself is cheaper than a burnt out CPU or GPU. If it aint broke, don't fix it... Have you ever changed the oils on your motor vehicle or do you wait with that too until something breaks? J.

No, the next step would not be to get rid of the cat, but to open up the computer, remove the heatsinks from the cpu and gpu , clean all heatsinks (preferably with compressed air) and to reinstall the heatsinks with fresh thermal paste. Cleaning all fans and checking that they still move freely is recommended too. If you don't have the skills to do so, contact a pc service in your town or a pc savy friend and have them perform that maintenance. J.

Avatar keys are UUIDs too. UUIDs ( Universally Unique Identifier) are a standard in software to identify certain elements. UUID Jj

Ever heard of uuids? Every item, user etc in Sl has got one. J.

Make sure that your viewer uses the Nvidia gpu and not the intel integrated graphics. Search for Nvidia optimus hybrid graphics and how to run applications on Nvidia instead of intel. J.

No, cuda does not necessarily mean gpu power. J.

Fully featured SL viewers require some gpu power. Can your arm machine provide that? J.

Which Linux distro do you use? What hardware (especially which type of gpu?)? Which graphics driver is in use? J.

Have you tried other viewers like LL official or Singularity? Does this occur with every viewer? J.

AstralJames Allen wrote: Nee! bin wieder brav ;-) Aber meine Fragen hast du nicht beantwortet... J.

Und? Was hat das mit dem aktuell verfÿgbaren SecondLife zu tun? Ich vermute ja mal du wirst jetzt wieder WebGL brÿllen und mich beleidigen. J.

V2? Hope you know that viewer 2 was discontinued and you cannot access sl with it anymore. J.

I have been running Nvidia GPUs ( 580, 680, 780ti) in AMD cpu (FX 8xxx and FX 9xxx) machines for quite some time, no problems so far. J.

mrbwentsoftonme wrote: Whoa seems to be whole lot of confliction here. All I know is I turned to you and other SL residents for help. You and others were really arrogant like your posts here making me feel like an idiot; instead of giving me a workable answer. I am a noobie to SL but I know I hated windows 8/1 and wanted to try linux. I saw this roleplay guy's posts and decided to check it all out. In college I was taught to trust but verify, so that is what I did. I found out it is true IBM HP and Dell are selling pcs with this ubuntu 14.04 on them. Jean if it is junk why are they supporting it? I am a NetFlix user and check out youtube often so I checked into what the roleplayer said about google chrome. It too is all true. Freaked me out to see amazon supports it too. For a junk operating system seems many big companies are now supporting it. Ubuntu is Linux? I noticed if I type a SL search under linux it pulls up. If I do a net search under linux it shows up too. I decided to approach john in sl for windows and ubuntu help. Unlike you he was polite and answered all my questions lol there were many. I trust but verify and I found out this roleplayer dude really knows what he is talking about whether it be windows or linux. I dumped windows 8/1 and switched to this ubuntu 14.04 and everything this dude roleplayer shared with me works. Who cares how long you been in sl. You sound like a school yard bully exposed for what you really are. It's always nice to just contact one side. If you would have connected me in world, we could have discussed the pros and cons of *buntu vs other linuxes too, but, well you made your choice. Welcome to the Ubuntu side of Linux which will bring you into big trouble sooner or later. Have fun in the Ubuntu camp and with the aging Ubuntu 14.04 and with all the design and usabiit flaes of Ubuntu's mobile device UI Unity. If you think I am a school yard bully, then I just reply: I have been through 3 years with Ubunru and debian ( the system Ubuntu is based on) and bith pissed me off so many times with senseless decisions dictated by marketing or devs only that I will never go back to this crap, and with Ubuntu cooking their own display server ( which is verly likely noit being supported by AMD or Nvidia any time soon and with Debian switching their init system, big, big problems are already appearing on the horizon. If mr. roleplayubuntuisbestandyourr8yearsexperiencewithlinuxisworthlessandyou mustuseubuntuforevercauseeverythingworksexcept64bitfirestorm can help you with this or with the rapidly ageing package base of Ubuntu 14.04, then be glad, he does not even know how to get 64 bit Liarstorm to work under *buntu, so his 'I recommend what works' statement is utter hpocrisy and fanboyism. J.

Wolfee Yaffle wrote: I use Linux Mint 64bit with the 64bit Singularity viewer and I don't have any issues getting SL working. Unless I try to compile my own viewer. THEN I run into failures (even if I have the dependencies). But using the prepared download works like a charm, so I really don't really need to build my own. I was just curious to try it... 64bit firestorm works too except media on a prim will not play youtube videos at all. It works fine under singularity. I think the firestorm team has plans to fix it, but it's a back burner plan, so for now I use singularity, which tries to keep up with latest features, but the rendering of shaders is sub-par compared to V3 based viewers. MoaP in Singularity 64 bot works with youtube for me as well as self compiling. Seems Mint is mssing something there. J.

jonhnnyroleplay wrote: There are triers...then there are doers...you try "stuff" like this...I do post facts...you "try" to help Linux users...I do...you try...I do. Apparently it is quite a surprise for someone to step up and *answer* Linux questions with working solutions/facts, that really *do* resolve issues and not post a lot of crap cut n pasted off forums/sites that do not even work. According to my chatlogs I sought help from you among other Linux experts/SL residents claiming to have knowledge about Ubuntu/Linux....not one of you had the answer on how to run Phoenix Firestorm x64 on 14.04 x64...I got bs dribble, so when in doubt "try" make it appear you know right? Ring my doorbell I will answer the door one last time, but not with futile insults, or bs...just the facts. As for other guessers on here who want to "try" this stuff from now on I am not even going to validify it with a reply. I'd rather be helping s SL resident ...byyyye ~~ I have been here longer than you, I have been using Linux since 2007, I have helped many many linux users here and in world, I have even ran Sl users through installing and configuring complete Linux systems.. You ony post about *buntu here, *buntu there, *buntu everywhere. If you'd take a look outside your little unityfied ppa multiarsch world, you would find a different world where you would not have to fiddle around with manual installation of a ton of 32 bit multiarsch libs manually. (no, that will not work in *buntu or debian). But just go on confusing GNU/Linux with Ubuntu, a distro that has eradicated the word Linux completely from their website. I still wish you good luck with *buntu/debian, you will need it in the very near future. J.

Now try a real Linux... J,

Qie Niangao wrote: You seem to be promoting 64-bit Linux, but I think you must have repressed some unpleasant memories. The native 64-bit TPV trials have fallen far behind current versions, and other viewers will need to run with 32-bit libraries anyway; I went through configuring those again a few months ago and that's become remarkably more difficult than it used to be. Meanwhile, the likelihood of a native 64-bit viewer ever going mainstream is reduced by the prospect of SL itself being superceded. That's already had very evident impact on TPV project teams. I'll say it again: If Second Life is the only consideration, currently a 32-bit Linux distro will be less hassle than 64-bit, for no difference in performance. If you need 64-bit Linux for something else, it can be made to work with SL, but expect to spend some time finding and configuring all the libraries you'll need. (I haven't seen any issues with 64-bit Windows, and Windows needs 64 bit addressing a lot more than Linux: it's fatter, and less PAE-capable above 4GB.) 32 bit is dying as hardware is advancing and making progress. Singularity 64 bit has been working very well on my 64 bit linuxes for quite a while and I had no problems 'configuring those 32 bit libs'. Your problems in this regard seem to result in you using debian/*buntu based multiarsch systems. When using 32 bit systems with max 3.7 Gb of RAM, you can and will expect viewer or even system crashes, especially in crowded areas when zooming around due to the viewer using up all system ram, so recommending memory restricted systems might not be the best idea. Ubuntu by the way is slowly preparing top drop 32 bit kernels completely We have 2014, not 1999, but you still promote technology from the last millenium as superior. J

I made the switch fromWindows to Linux in late 2007, never regretted it, won't go back to Windows. Linux is different, no question about that, but it's only different, not more complicated. If you want something that runs stable, reliable and for'ever', I'd propose to give Manjaro a try. All these *buntus are strange systems, canonical, thecompany behind Ubuntu suffers from sevral problems which result in theirs +buntus being kin dof strange, lots of packages are patched by them, work in astrange manner and their 'Unity' tablet user interface they try to push on everyone for me is one of the four operating system user interfaces available which I call unuseable. Also, you won't find the word 'Linux' on Ubuntu's website, it's as if they are ashamed that their OSX wannabe is based off Linux, another reason not to use their OSses. Another argument for me against *buntus is that they don't allow you to install the Nvidia drivers straight from the start, you need to dig through some subfunctions after installing to get the correct driver. Your machine will be able to run most Linuxes very well. I you have any additional questions, feel free to ask me, here or in world. J.

Ever considered switching to a different operating system? J.

What are the technical specifications of your laptop? What kind of network connection do you use? J.

Orca Flotta wrote: LOL! Nooooo, Jeanie, you know I'd never go back to Windows. When I saw a about this APU, he sounded very pleasantly surprised. These things are quite capable performers. Now I know as well as anybody that SL isn't a »game« like all the others so I'm asking here. I know you don't like AMD graphics but as it so happens none of the normal AMD CPUs fits on a mini ITC board. And if the graphics aren't good enough I figure I can always just add a good NVIDIA card. My question was only about what I can expect in terms of playability straight outta the box. The other day we had a thread here about a resi playing SL on a chromebook! :smileysurprised: And the graphics actually looked quite tasty. So I figured again that maybe one doesn't need the super most high powered GPU to get satisfying results. You know I fell in love with the CM Elite 130 case and desperately try to fit an AMD proci in. Also I must mention I'm almost always broke so I'm building my dream pc on a veeeeeeeeeeeeery tiiiiight budget. Well, the problem is actually AMD. Their proprietary linux drivers are so bad that they are not even available anymore in Arch linux, the devs removed them due to being dysfunctional. The free drivers limit the gpu performace, so your apu will perform even worse and AMD usually lags before they adopt to changes in Linux. After xorg 1.16 came out, it took them several months to deliver a working driver for it. So prepare for fps <20 on low and around 10-15 on mid graphics settings on that apu with free drivers (if they work at all). If you plan to add a nvidia gpu later, why go for an apu anyway? You spend a lot more for an apu than for a cpu plus: mitx cases require special gpus which limits the choice of available cards considerably plus: these small cases will heat up very fast when you run sl on teh GPU, so expect overheating issues or a noise simila to a starting jet airplane. Regarding 'chromebooks', I wonder what that guy used to access sl, as ChromeOS is not supported by any viewer. Maybe it was a 'rooted' Chromebook running android and the lumiya 'viewer' which is rather low on system performance or that person simply lied. Regarding that video: Battlefield4 is 'mantle' enabled, meaning that it's specially hokked up with that APU. There is no mantle support for SecondLife and I doubt it will ever be available. J. Edit: I found a test of the A10 7850K at Phoronix. It performs almost as 'good' as a 4 year old low perf Nvidia GT 240.

Planning to use windows and low grapics settings? J.