From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 06:00:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A56F16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 06:00:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E61543D2F for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 06:00:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D75mg-0008Iy-Ka for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 06:55:34 +0100 Received: from jesse.guardiani.us ([216.64.98.233]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 06:55:34 +0100 Received: from jesse by jesse.guardiani.us with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 06:55:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:01:21 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 27 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jesse.guardiani.us User-Agent: KNode/0.8.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Thinkpad Thermals X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 06:00:46 -0000 Howdy! My IBM Thinkpad A30p's ATI video chip got cooked last year, leaving me with an unreadable screen full of artifacts. I finally bought a replacement mobo a few days ago and installed it this evening. It's now running artifact free! Yay! Anyway, I'm no longer running FreeBSD on this laptop. I'm currently running Gentoo Linux. But it would be trivial to switch back if needed. I'm using gkrellm under linux to monitor my CPU temp, and I'm noticing that it runs quite hot. The fan doesn't kick in until the CPU hits 80C! That's a little too close for comfort, IMO. I think I remember seeing other posts from Thinkpad users mentioning high temps under ACPI. Has anyone found a way to cool these things down? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net