Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:59:18 +0300 From: Ilya Bakulin <webmaster@kibab.com> To: George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X60 overheating with 7.1 Message-ID: <20090111105918.1fe5d499.webmaster@kibab.com> In-Reply-To: <111DA6F0-24FF-417C-B37B-25780F7ECFF6@neville-neil.com> References: <111DA6F0-24FF-417C-B37B-25780F7ECFF6@neville-neil.com>
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--Signature=_Sun__11_Jan_2009_10_59_18_+0300_AFbaPWHN0YhQh__h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:37:15 -0500 George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I just got a Thinkpad X60 and have installed 7.1 STABLE on it. =20 > Basically 7.1 and > then updated to stable as of 10 Jan. I have one major problem and =20 > that is > overheating. I cannot run even a long compile without the CPU going =20 > to 97C > and shutting down. Trying to do something like a buildkernel with -j =20 > anything other > than 1 also fails. >=20 > I found this thread on stable@ >=20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039452.html >=20 > but have not found anything to address the problem. >=20 > One change I did make was to switch from ULE to 4BSD, since the thread =20 > talked > about going from 6.2, where 4BSD is the default, to 7.0. This did not =20 > have any > appreciable effect. >=20 > The only physical change to the machine was to go from a spinning HDD, =20 > to a Flash > based SSD (Intel 80G). I don't think the flash drive is adding heat =20 > but perhaps > the fact that I/O is now faster is leading to overheating? >=20 > Thoughts or suggestions welcome. >=20 > Best, > George >=20 >=20 Did you try using powerd and/or Cx states of your processor?=20 There are several discussions about these things found at mobile@, stable@ = and many other places. For example, this thread at FreeBSD forums: http://f= orums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D172 P.S. As I know from reading list discussions, some IBM Thinkpads really hav= e problems with overheating. You may also read this thread, especially about your laptop model: http://= unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2008-01/msg00100.html And here is how Josh Paetzel managed to get rid of overheating (using Lenov= o T61): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg96655.html Hope these links will help you. --=20 Ilya Bakulin <webmaster@kibab.com> xmpp://kibab612@jabber.ru --Signature=_Sun__11_Jan_2009_10_59_18_+0300_AFbaPWHN0YhQh__h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklpptoACgkQo9vlj1oadwjO+ACgms6DlPucjui4zGJsNwHum0Iz yUYAn2gUfpIM1KIXkZsOq8eKHEFbnKMa =Mjhu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Sun__11_Jan_2009_10_59_18_+0300_AFbaPWHN0YhQh__h--
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