PBR running hot

[brzegorz]

Hi,

I've just received the Pinebook Pro. I'm running the stock system. I've updated the kernel, the packages and keyboard firmware. Pinebook runs at 50 Celsius when doing only light browsing with the Powersave governor. Playing a 720p60 YT video pushes the CPU Temperature to 60-65 Celsius range. The laptop is particularly hot at the bottom beneath the Escape key, especially if I hold it on my laps. What should I do? The laptop is plugged with the supplied charger. Performance is choppy, the cursor stutters.

P.S. The temperature is 50 even when idling.

Thanks,
brzegorz

[tophneal]

This is actually a known, and discussed tidbit. When using the PBP in a lap, it can get much hotter, faster, than if it were placed on a hard surface. I've been trying to make efforts to be more conscious of how the PBP is situated when in my lap, to try and avoid prolonged placement on my lap in the areas that heat up the most.

[brzegorz]

After reading your reply I've booted Pinebook again, put it on the desk and started running a 1080p60 YT video. The video is very laggy - not entirely unwatchable, but it would require a really strong desire to actually watch it. The temperature goes to 67 Celsius and possibly beyond. Based on the forums I believe it should be able to handle that kind of video fluently and without overheating.

[brzegorz]

P.S. After some time, the CPU reaches 73 Celsius degrees. That's almost as much as in hmuller's stress test(https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8383). I'm shutting it down for now, there's some issue with it.

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

This is actually a known, and discussed tidbit. When using the PBP in a lap, it can get much hotter, faster, than if it were placed on a hard surface. I've been trying to make efforts to be more conscious of how the PBP is situated when in my lap, to try and avoid prolonged placement on my lap in the areas that heat up the most.

Wow. I might consider a thin neoprene pad glued to the bottom case cover, when mine eventually arrives!

[tophneal]

Yea, I've been lazily looking into additional passive cooling options that would fit within the case. I haven't had an real rush, as when it heats in my lap, I usually use it as a sign to set the PBP on a table and take a small break.

[brzegorz]

I'd like to report that after booting Manjaro from SD card the temperatures are all right. I don't know what's wrong with the Debian. I still can't play 1080p videos, but I've seen a lot of talks about Panfrost and Mali and hardware acceleration in other topics: )

[wasgurd]

How to set up sensors in non-stock distro?

lm-sensors doesn't detect it.

[brzegorz]

I've used the following script, found somewhere on the forums:

#!/bin/bash
cpu=$(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp)
gpu=$(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp)
echo CPU ${cpu::2}C '|' GPU ${gpu::2}C

[ElektromAn]

I'd like to report that after booting Manjaro from SD card the temperatures are all right. I don't know what's wrong with the Debian. I still can't play 1080p videos, but I've seen a lot of talks about Panfrost and Mali and hardware acceleration in other topics: )

I've done a test on YT with 1080p at 30fps, which works with ~70% load
60fps is not usable, frame drops ~40%
This is all due VP9 with software decoding

You can see the stats with right click on the video and "stats for nerds"

Panfrost and Mali are GPU's, they do 2D and 3D
Hantro is the VPU which can on rk3399 decode H264/VP9

drops some link here, because this is maybe missing in Rockchip source
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromi...rty/kernel

Code:

$ ls drivers/media/platform/rockchip-vpu/rk3399_vdec_*
drivers/media/platform/rockchip-vpu/rk3399_vdec_hw.c
drivers/media/platform/rockchip-vpu/rk3399_vdec_hw_h264d.c
drivers/media/platform/rockchip-vpu/rk3399_vdec_hw_vp9d.c
drivers/media/platform/rockchip-vpu/rk3399_vdec_regs.h

This is the old path and old name(s) ...

I've used the following script, found somewhere on the forums:

#!/bin/bash
cpu=$(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp)
gpu=$(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp)
echo CPU ${cpu::2}C '|' GPU ${gpu::2}C

On Manjaro I use XFCE with sensorplugin, the temperatures are in ACPI tab