Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:59:18 +0300 From: Ilya Bakulin <webmaster@kibab.com> To: George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X60 overheating with 7.1 Message-ID: <20090111105918.1fe5d499.webmaster@kibab.com> In-Reply-To: <111DA6F0-24FF-417C-B37B-25780F7ECFF6@neville-neil.com> References: <111DA6F0-24FF-417C-B37B-25780F7ECFF6@neville-neil.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:37:15 -0500 George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just got a Thinkpad X60 and have installed 7.1 STABLE on it. > Basically 7.1 and > then updated to stable as of 10 Jan. I have one major problem and > that is > overheating. I cannot run even a long compile without the CPU going > to 97C > and shutting down. Trying to do something like a buildkernel with -j > anything other > than 1 also fails. > > I found this thread on stable@ > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039452.html > > but have not found anything to address the problem. > > One change I did make was to switch from ULE to 4BSD, since the thread > talked > about going from 6.2, where 4BSD is the default, to 7.0. This did not > have any > appreciable effect. > > The only physical change to the machine was to go from a spinning HDD, > to a Flash > based SSD (Intel 80G). I don't think the flash drive is adding heat > but perhaps > the fact that I/O is now faster is leading to overheating? > > Thoughts or suggestions welcome. > > Best, > George > > Did you try using powerd and/or Cx states of your processor? There are several discussions about these things found at mobile@, stable@ and many other places. For example, this thread at FreeBSD forums: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=172 P.S. As I know from reading list discussions, some IBM Thinkpads really have problems with overheating. You may also read this thread, especially about your laptop model: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2008-01/msg00100.html And here is how Josh Paetzel managed to get rid of overheating (using Lenovo T61): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg96655.html Hope these links will help you. -- Ilya Bakulin <webmaster@kibab.com> xmpp://kibab612@jabber.ru [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklpptoACgkQo9vlj1oadwjO+ACgms6DlPucjui4zGJsNwHum0Iz yUYAn2gUfpIM1KIXkZsOq8eKHEFbnKMa =Mjhu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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