Re: devd and/or ACPI not reporting a heat problem

2010-06-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <4c187778.9060...@freebsd.org> Doug Barton writes: : Howdy, : : I thought my heat problems were over with this laptop thanks to all : the great suggestions I've received about powerd, no stepping, etc. (I : also propped up both the back and the front to make a nice big air

Re: devd and/or ACPI not reporting a heat problem

2010-06-16 Thread Doug Barton
On 6/16/2010 5:05 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > You can reduce the polling interval by changing > hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate (it is in seconds it seems) to a lower value. Thanks, I'll give that a try, although with the cleaning I gave it yesterday I'm hoping to avoid heat problems for a while. :)

Re: devd and/or ACPI not reporting a heat problem

2010-06-16 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 3:04:24 am Doug Barton wrote: > Howdy, > > I thought my heat problems were over with this laptop thanks to all the > great suggestions I've received about powerd, no stepping, etc. (I also > propped up both the back and the front to make a nice big air pocket.) > I've