How long did you wait with cpuspeed=0?  It takes a little bit (at least 5 
minutes) for the system to cool down enough to drop the fan speed.



On 2007 Jan 24 (Wed) at 10:45:25 +0100 (+0100), Vim Visual wrote:
:Hi,
:
:I am using an ibm t43p and have realised that the fans are spinning
:*all* the time. When I was using the same laptop with a debian flavour
:I scarcely could hear them spinning.
:
:In dmesg I see
:
:cpu0: unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CPU, msr 0x0612112b0600112b
:cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 2267 MHz (1388 mV): speeds: 2267, 800 MHz
:
:This "unknwon" must be the problem... ?? in any case, I have tried
:playing around with sysctl this way
:
:tuffstein| sysctl -a hw.cpuspeed
:hw.cpuspeed=2262
:tuffstein| sudo sysctl -w hw.setperf=50
:hw.setperf: 100 -> 50
:tuffstein| sysctl -a hw.cpuspeed
:hw.cpuspeed=2267
:tuffstein| sudo sysctl -w hw.setperf=0
:hw.setperf: 50 -> 0
:tuffstein| sysctl -a hw.cpuspeed
:hw.cpuspeed=800
:
:
:But this doesn't help at all... the fans spin still all the time...
:zzzzzzzzzzzzzhhhhhhh
:
:On the other hand, cpu seems to be missing
:
:http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cpu&arch=i386
:
:whereis cpu yields nothing and pkg_add "Can't resolve cpu" I didn't
:find it either in ports
:
:Can somebody help a zzzzzzzh'ed newbie?
:
:How do I reduce, if not totally eliminate this noise?
:
:Before you ask, yes, I have googled around but I must be very bad at
:it because I found nothing but this
:
:http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/x31.html
:
:and he's doing the same than I am
:
:If you're curious, here you are my dmesg
:
:OpenBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #1107: Sat Sep 16 19:15:58 MDT 2006
:    [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
:cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.26GHz ("GenuineIntel"
:686-class) 2.27 GHz
:cpu0: 
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,SBF,EST,TM2
:cpu0: unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CPU, msr 0x0612112b0600112b
:cpu0: using only highest and lowest power states
:cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 2267 MHz (1388 mV): speeds: 2267, 800 MHz
:real mem  = 2145873920 (2095580K)
:avail mem = 1949347840 (1903660K)
:using 4256 buffers containing 107397120 bytes (104880K) of memory
:mainbus0 (root)
:bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(e5) BIOS, date 05/18/06, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
:0xfd760, SMBIOS rev. 2.33 @ 0xe0010 (64 entries)
:bios0: IBM 2668Q1G
:apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
:apm0: battery life expectancy 98%
:apm0: AC on, battery charge high
:apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1
:pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd6f0/0x910
:pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdeb0/256 (14 entries)
:pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82371FB ISA" rev 0x00)
:pcibios0: PCI bus #12 is the last bus
:bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x10000 0xd0000/0x1600 0xd1800/0x1000
:0xdc000/0x4000! 0xe0000/0x10000
:cpu0 at mainbus0
:pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
:pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82915GM/PM/GMS Host" rev 0x03
:ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82915PM/GM PCIE" rev 0x03
:pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
:vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI FireGL V3200" rev 0x80
:wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
:wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
:ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x03
:pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
:bge0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5751M" rev 0x11, BCM5750 B1
:(0x4101): irq 11, address 00:16:41:58:cd:b0
:brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5750 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 0
:ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x03
:pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
:uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
:usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
:uhub0 at usb0
:uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
:uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
:uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
:usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
:uhub1 at usb1
:uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
:uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
:uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
:usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
:uhub2 at usb2
:uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
:uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
:uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
:usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0
:uhub3 at usb3
:uhub3: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
:uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
:ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x03: irq 11
:usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
:uhub4 at usb4
:uhub4: Intel EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
:uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
:ppb3 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xd3
:pci4 at ppb3 bus 11
:cbb0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Ricoh 5C476 CardBus" rev 0x8d: irq 11
:iwi0 at pci4 dev 2 function 0 "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG" rev 0x05:
:irq 11, address 00:16:6f:a4:62:d7
:cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
:cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 12 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0xb0
:pcmcia0 at cardslot0
:auich0 at pci0 dev 30 function 2 "Intel 82801FB AC97" rev 0x03: irq
:11, ICH6 AC97
:ac97: codec id 0x41445374 (Analog Devices AD1981B)
:ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, No 3D Stereo
:audio0 at auich0
:"Intel 82801FB Modem" rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 30 function 3 not configured
:ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801FBM LPC" rev 0x03: PM disabled
:pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801FBM SATA" rev 0x03: DMA,
:channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
:wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <HTS721080G9AT00>
:wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors
:wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
:atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
:scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
:cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <MATSHITA, DVD-RAM UJ-822S, 1.61> SCSI0
:5/cdrom removable
:cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
:ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801FB SMBus" rev 0x03: irq 11
:iic0 at ichiic0
:isa0 at ichpcib0
:isadma0 at isa0
:pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
:pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
:pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
:wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
:pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
:pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
:wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
:pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
:midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
:spkr0 at pcppi0
:lpt2 at isa0 port 0x3bc/4: polled
:aps0 at isa0 port 0x1600/31
:npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
:fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
:biomask effd netmask effd ttymask ffff
:pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
:mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
:ugen0 at uhub2 port 2
:ugen0: STMicroelectronics Biometric Coprocessor, rev 1.00/0.01, addr 2
:dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
:root on wd0a
:rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
:auich0: measured ac97 link rate at 47999 Hz, will use 48000 Hz
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