> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Edwards <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 8:36 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Abnormal processor temperature.
>
> On 2023-11-21, Laurence Perkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I have a system here running an Intel N97 processor, which is idling
> > at 70-80C on Gentoo with all cores 99% idle. This is 40 degrees
> > hotter than it runs on Ubuntu or Windows 10.
> >
> > Powertop confirms that the CPU is spending nearly all of its time in
> > idle mode.
>
> Are clock speeds being scaled down when idle? Or does the N97's "idle mode"
> preclude the need to scale down clock speed when not busy to avoid high temps?
>
>
That was part of my confusion, because even when I used cpupower to lock all
cores to 800MHz, it kept running hot.
Michael's suggestion of adding the SPI modules to the kernel appears to have
fixed it. I'm not sure why the gentoo-kernel-bin that I tried didn't work at
that rate, but I'm going to have to activate the "somebody-else's-problem"
field on that one.
LMP
