From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 30 21:59:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E27106566C for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:59:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f204.google.com (mail-yw0-f204.google.com [209.85.211.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D38D8FC16 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:59:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh42 with SMTP id 42so3715409ywh.28 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:59:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cbmf3DeaRT+WQtkNy8dzetoSe+p/t7dXvL5F2i97M/Y=; b=rj6SWTvuq2rCaX0k0/6TAeZtAPnhjPSKZ0gApQevG4CmYXBZZUO97ymlnW+Bd7BmhD 26ORXEgsxPONYpmIUZmQviAb96xVX/ksDGff6DSG9M9XDES6+pAFTuwaEQ2CY/ES3t31 DukuTsNm01tIVVvcb1clkDZ4fZxdcYx/YIsA0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uHpLPlWFcjIrcAPblBMKAhnWF30mq6gqkn/9HeWcZQBhXiJJ4ftQcCvIpAR0VjmXSl nrMyIeZ3eYe3v2ySL6yEN+leCr4UzN4/ixg304eIXR9Up4xx/b1i0wIAZGZvkl4swN1X ppaoZSMxIl9/iczbTfpUzBUXl8IGntndiaTFQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.11.30 with SMTP id 30mr7114808agk.42.1259618391342; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:59:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200911292020.55799.freebsd@insightbb.com> References: <200911291024.06896.freebsd@insightbb.com> <200911292020.55799.freebsd@insightbb.com> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:59:51 -0500 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Steven Friedrich Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI temperature X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:59:52 -0000 2009/11/29 Steven Friedrich : > On Sunday 29 November 2009 11:03:28 am you wrote: >> 2009/11/29 Steven Friedrich : >> > I booted my HP Pavilion zd8215us and I immediately invoked >> > chkCPUTemperature. The first temp reported was 52C, which is 125.6F. T= his >> > leads me to believe that acpi has an anomaly regarding temperature >> > measurement. The ambient temp was 71F (21.6C). The machine had been of= f >> > for over eight hours. >> >> I'm not sure. =A0My laptop shows about 59C as soon as I can >> log in, in a room kept around 16C ambient. =A0It rather quickly >> drops to <40C if I let it idle with powerd doing its thing. >> > Thanks for the response. One question though, what OS are you running. > > The reason I ask is because I want to discover if it's FreeBSD specific o= r > possibly affecting Linux distros as well. And if you're running FreeBSD, = which > version. > I think CPU use/temp during boot-up _could_ vary a lot from one operating system to another, I don't know that it must, though, since the whole business is arcane and full of magic (much like poutine). FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #1: Mon Nov 23 13:47:06 EST 2009 amd64 It's a turion x2 of 1990MHz I only had windows on long enough to burn one CD back in February, so I have not the least clue how it behaved (besides terribly). I can't find any way to get the actual temperature values under Opensolaris, but I do dual boot. It spends so much time starting so many mind-bogglingly worthless services prior to giving me a log-in prompt that I'm not sure the comparison is fair. The fan usually kick into high prior to the log-in prompt, though. Opensolaris is pretty horrible in terms of performance and battery life compared to FreeBSD. It's also like a strange, alien wasteland what with bash & gnome & other linuxisms, except pfexec. pfexec rocks. --=20 --