From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 1 21:00:03 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 2E3A81065670 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:00:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@insightbb.com) Received: from mxsf03.insightbb.com (mxsf03.insightbb.com [74.128.0.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E79298FC17 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:00:02 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,322,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="765833404" Received: from unknown (HELO asav03.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.123]) by mxsf03.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 01 Dec 2009 16:00:01 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArcEABcTFUvQLicL/2dsb2JhbACBTtc7gjWBfASBag X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,322,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="115574633" Received: from 208-46-39-11.dia.static.qwest.net (HELO laptop2.stevenfriedrich.org) ([208.46.39.11]) by asavout03.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 01 Dec 2009 16:00:00 -0500 From: Steven Friedrich To: "illoai@gmail.com" , questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:59:53 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (FreeBSD/7.2-RELEASE-p4; KDE/4.3.3; i386; ; ) References: <200911291024.06896.freebsd@insightbb.com> <200911292020.55799.freebsd@insightbb.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912011559.53319.freebsd@insightbb.com> Cc: 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: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:00:03 -0000 On Monday 30 November 2009 04:59:51 pm you wrote: > 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. > >> > This leads me to believe that acpi has an anomaly regarding > >> > temperature measurement. The ambient temp was 71F (21.6C). The machine > >> > had been off for over eight hours. > >> > >> I'm not sure. My laptop shows about 59C as soon as I can > >> log in, in a room kept around 16C ambient. It 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 > > or 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. > I wasn't thinking that the actual temperature varied from one OS to another, I was thinking that Linux might have a different version of ACPI or that FreeBSD might have a bug that Linux doesn't.