From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 26 4:44:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 933BB37B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 04:44:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net (mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F7A543EBE for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 04:44:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0014.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.14] helo=mindspring.com) by mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18Gf4i-00032A-00; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 04:44:25 -0800 Message-ID: <3DE36C5A.C304AE4A@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 04:43:06 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Angelmo Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI problem with laptop? References: <3DE345C3.702@veidit.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Angelmo wrote: > If I choose to make world under -CURRENT the laptop gets hotter (well > the processor/hd and so on gets used and causes heat) now, the fan > starts to spin faster and so on, but the computer never gets cooler even > a day after a build it still is hot and the fan never stops spinning, is > there a way to let my processor know how to calm down? > This problem dosn't occur when I'm running Windows (XP) Is this a Dell Lattitude? They are known to have heat problems. There's also the possibility that the CPU is a desktop CPU in the laptop; people aren't supposed to do that, either, but it can crank up the heat. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message