Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 461, Issue 6, Message: 1 (sorry about the threading) On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:12:17 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:10:59 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: See how the entire ioctl() interface for these device types is completely

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-04 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 05:23:31 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 461, Issue 6, Message: 1 (sorry about the threading) On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:12:17 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:10:59 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: It doesn't

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-03 Thread Arthur Chance
On 04/02/13 20:55, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message 515aae16.9030...@qeng-ho.org, you wrote: On 04/02/13 04:02, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [Overheating CPU war story snipped.] ... I've had a fan jam that way. Cable ties are your friends. Yes. P.P.S. I have a (relatively) monster

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-03 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:10:59 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: See how the entire ioctl() interface for these device types is completely documented IN THE MAN PAGE? That's the way it should be... None of this rooting around in the sources for something that should have been documented

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:35:49 +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: I'm not sure even the music industry's paranoid lawyers would worry about something that sounds that bad, and any half way sane judge would throw it out as de minimis. They care about the crappy glaring sound of 8 bit, 11 kHz, mono,

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-03 Thread Carl Johnson
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:55:20 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: No, that does not work. Read the manpage to recognize clearly _what_ kind of input the /dev/speaker device accepts. It does not understand WAV files. However, try this example (cw.sh):

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:51:21 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:55:20 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: No, that does not work. Read the manpage to recognize clearly _what_ kind of input the /dev/speaker device accepts. It does not

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-02 Thread Quartz
You might want to confirm that your processor model requires a thermal pad and not grease. Then hunt some down and use it instead of thermal grease. I seem to recall they were somewhat difficult to locate a place from which to purchase. It's not that bad these days, search amazon or something

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-02 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/1/2013 10:02 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [[ Mostly, this posting is just a story. But it does include one question, towards the end. See below. ]] Well, I accidentally found what I believe is most likely the reason for the system halts I have been having recently, so I just

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-02 Thread Arthur Chance
On 04/02/13 04:02, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [Overheating CPU war story snipped.] I don't know what to make of this, except to suspect that some loose wires inside my case got in the way of the CPU fan turning. (I am not neat like some folks. The inside of myu case _is_ really rather sloppy,

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-02 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:02:02 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I've now installed mbmon and xmbmon and will be watching the CPU temp closely for awhile. I have xmbmon running on the lower left of my screen, together with xcpufreq and xload. Just for my information. :-) I really wish that

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-02 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:02:02 -0700 Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: I really wish that one or the other of those tools allowed setting a threshold CPU temp, beyond which the tool would emit an ear piercing alarm via the motherboard speaker... you know.. in case the regular

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-02 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 515aae16.9030...@qeng-ho.org, you wrote: On 04/02/13 04:02, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [Overheating CPU war story snipped.] ... I've had a fan jam that way. Cable ties are your friends. Yes. P.P.S. I have a (relatively) monster sized heatsink in this system, and it sits atop a

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-02 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:55:20 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Is there any specific advantage to using that, relative to using mbmon? As far as I understand, it's utilizing a different infrastructure to obtain data. You can see man amdtemp in comparison to the reporting mechanisms mbmon uses.

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-02 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 20130402231522.71cb7352.free...@edvax.de, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: First order question: Why is it that in FreeBSD there are so many man pages like this one, _purporting_ to describe some low level interface to some sort of hardware, and the man page _doesn't_ include a

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-02 Thread Shane Ambler
On 02/04/2013 13:32, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I've now installed mbmon and xmbmon and will be watching the CPU temp closely for awhile. I really wish that one or the other of those tools allowed setting a threshold CPU temp, beyond which the tool would emit an ear piercing alarm via the

Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-01 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
[[ Mostly, this posting is just a story. But it does include one question, towards the end. See below. ]] Well, I accidentally found what I believe is most likely the reason for the system halts I have been having recently, so I just thought that I would share that. It _is_ a bit humorous.

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-01 Thread Michael Powell
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [[ Mostly, this posting is just a story. But it does include one question, towards the end. See below. ]] Well, I accidentally found what I believe is most likely the reason for the system halts I have been having recently, so I just thought that I would