From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 5:51:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F44237B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 05:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp02.web.de [217.72.192.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02DBA43E4A for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 05:51:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aeli3@web.de) Received: from [217.227.30.190] (helo=aeli2.hasenlair) by smtp.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.93 #1) id 18ZAQf-0003pZ-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:51:33 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: AELI To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and AMD power management Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:33:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20030108232002.G61746-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> <200301091915.H09JFUJ16660@asarian-host.net> <3E1DF444.7020300@adam.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3E1DF444.7020300@adam.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301132018.54773.aeli3@web.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Am Thursday 09 January 2003 23:14 schrieb Brian Astill: > Mark wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Matthew Seaman" > > >To: > >Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:54 AM > >Subject: Re: FreeBSD and AMD power management > > > >>Try the ports/sysutils/fvcool port --- > >>http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/ > >> > >>Using it has cut the average CPU temperature on my system from > >>about 70C to about 50C. > > > >It looked interesting; so I checked it out. Then it turns out this > >power-safe mode on your AMD CPU is disabled by default for a good reas= on: > > it makes your system unstable, and/or causes it to hang. Then cool is > > suddenly not so cool anymore. :( > > You have somewhat misread the docs. > To "prove" this, nobody using fvcool has reported instability on this o= r > any other list. All HAVE reported a drop in CPU temperature of around > 20C. In my case that means dropping from 55C to 35C. --=20 I'm sorry to be the first !! My system locks in about 2s. after starting=20 Fvcool. It's a Athlon TB 1.4c on an Msi K7T266pro-R ! Any one any idea! For exanple the Pciconf.values?=20 =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message