Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 00:56:08 +0300 From: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: notebook cpu throttling Message-ID: <1897036871.20070522005608@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <20070521200813.GB95817@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <634772431.20070521215222@ghirai.com> <20070521200813.GB95817@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Hello Roland, Monday, May 21, 2007, 11:08:13 PM, you wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:52:22PM +0300, Ghirai wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a >> Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 (Core Duo). >> >> Everything works fine, except the cpu throttling, >> which makes the fan start quite often. >> >> Is there any way to fix this? > You need to do three things (as root); > 1) Load the cpufreq module 'kldload cpufreq'. > 2) Put 'powerd_enable="YES"' in your /etc/rc.conf > 2) Start powerd: '/etc/rc.d/powerd start' > Roland Thanks for the hint. I did that, but now xorg constantly uses 20-30% CPU. CPUs were running cooler indeed, but everything ran jerky, because of the xorg cpu usage. Note that i haven't upgraded to 7.2 yet, but i don't think this is the problem. -- Best regards, Ghirai.
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