On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:55:32PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I won't even bother mentioning what happens when I run something that's > CPU or GPU intensive. I haven't had any crashes, but in some cases, > I've seen the GPU temperatures reach over 80C -- completely > unacceptable, and bordering on insane. It's gotten to the point where > to use my T60p *quietly*, I'm forced to prop the rear corners up on > little blocks or whatever, and then place a desk fan nearby, blowing > cold air more or less underneathe the laptop. This keeps the fan in low > speed mode, which is semi-tolerable.
Makes me wonder why you didn't return these laptops for repair... > I would urge those here to consider booting XP somehow (if possible) and > running tp4xfancontrol to check actual temperatures, since FreeBSD's > h/w monitoring capability is spotty at best (I think Linux wins out > here, but at least there's room for growth...) ... or just use FreeBSD's own acpi_ibm(4) for reading those temperatures: $ sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.thermal dev.acpi_ibm.0.thermal: 49 52 -1 47 32 -1 32 -1 Now, who are you calling "spotty"? http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors has some hints about possible sensor locations, although no one has yet submitted information on sensor locations for the X60s. Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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