On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Bartosz Fabianowski <free...@chillt.de>wrote:
> Sorry to hear none of that helped. It seems a very serious problem, and >> it would be useful to know if it behaves any better under linux or not. >> > > I am still on the hunt for a bootable Linux distribution. I am in the > unfortunate situation of having no CD-Rs at hand. And because it is Easter, > shops are closed. > > Most Linux distributions require you to run a proprietary tool from inside > Windows or another Linux installation to create a bootable USB medium. I > found a USB image for OpenSUSE but that failed to boot. I am continuing to > hunt... > > You need sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest="C2" instead .. that's what >> /etc/rc.d/power_profile adjusts when you apply or remove power. >> I doubt it's likely to help much given the scale of overheating. >> > > I use the correct sysctl now, the cx_lowest value changed from C1 to C2 for > all CPUs but nothing seems to have changed otherwise: > > %sysctl dev.cpu | grep cx_usage > dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% last 230us > dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% last 216us > dev.cpu.2.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% last 159us > dev.cpu.3.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% last 323us > dev.cpu.4.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% last 320us > dev.cpu.5.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% last 357us > dev.cpu.6.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% last 378us > dev.cpu.7.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% last 374us > > That's pretty sad. Not sure what the first two differing by only 1MHz >> means .. but I'm out of ideas, and my depth. >> > > Thanks for all the tips. I will report back once I have had a chance to > compare with Linux. If nothing else helps, I will call Dell again in the > futile attempt to have them magically fix the issue somehow. > > - Bartosz > _______________________________________________ > > Please , see the site http://www.mandriva.com/en/linux/ My opinion is that Mandriva is a very good Linux distribution . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
