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 :_______________________________________________ :Openbsd-newbies mailing list :[email protected] :http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies : -- I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. 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