From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 19 20:38:14 2002 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 B3F7A37B401 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 20:38:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714DF44982 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 20:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from BAPhD (dialup-8.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.137]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9K3bxp76281; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:08:00 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU Temperature Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:09:55 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <1034878060.2e2b2920jud@myrealbox.com> <200210191148.31586.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> <20021019075014.GA65379@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20021019075014.GA65379@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200210201309.55391.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> 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 On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 05:20 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:48:31AM +0930, Brian Astill wrote: > > The port for fvcool seems to be broken - the only source of the tar.gz > > file produces a 154byte file with a bad checksum. > > Any advice you can offer? > > Try again --- it worked for me when I tried downloading it again just now. Nah! ... I used wget to this source :-) > >> http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/download/. > Receiving FVCool102.tar.gz (9289 bytes): 100% Yup! Fvcool works well for me using -e -i but not -e alone. The effect on CPU temperature in KDE is marginal - a drop of only a degree or two, but at the console - WOW! Drops rapidly from 51C to 32C. What that means is that I can run 24x7 from the console with minimal risk of the CPU overheating. Great. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message