Re: [OT] overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-09 Thread Johannes Dieterich
Hello, half offtopic: concerning the BIOS update: On 1/8/08, Nathan Lay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can, use DR-DOS (Caldera's DOS). Not to rag on FreeDOS or anything, but I've had bad experiences with FreeDOS and BIOS updates. http://www.drdosprojects.de/ Best Regards, Nathan Lay

Re: [OT] overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-09 Thread Johannes Dieterich
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade/X_Series looks as if it could be valuable... Sorry for disturbing. On 1/9/08, Johannes Dieterich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, half offtopic: concerning the BIOS update: On 1/8/08, Nathan Lay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can, use DR-DOS

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:22:48 -0500 Nathan Lay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do notice, however, that FreeBSD seemed to never use the fan to its potential on any of the Thinkpads I've used (T40 for 3 years, T43 for 3 years). Comparably, Windows XP would rev the fan far higher than even

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-07 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:55:32PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I won't even bother mentioning what happens when I run something that's CPU or GPU intensive. I haven't had any crashes, but in some cases, I've seen the GPU temperatures reach over 80C -- completely unacceptable, and bordering

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-07 Thread Johannes Dieterich
Thanks for that reply! :-) On 1/7/08, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First -- the disclaimer -- mine is X60 (not X60s), but with 1.83GHz 32-bit CPU, so it should be somewhat similar to yours. At the moment it has USB drivers loaded, which tends to bump CPU utilization

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-07 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 21:42 +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: Thanks for that reply! :-) On 1/7/08, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First -- the disclaimer -- mine is X60 (not X60s), but with 1.83GHz 32-bit CPU, so it should be somewhat similar to yours. At the

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-07 Thread Nathan Lay
Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 20:22 -0500, Nathan Lay wrote: Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:58 +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: On 1/6/08, Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-07 Thread Nathan Lay
Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 21:42 +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: Thanks for that reply! :-) On 1/7/08, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First -- the disclaimer -- mine is X60 (not X60s), but with 1.83GHz 32-bit CPU, so it should be

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Tobias Roth
Johannes Dieterich wrote: Hello everybody! Since the update from 6.2-STABLE to 7.0 I'm encountering problems with the temperature of my Thinkpad X60s. Under heavy load, e.g., make builworld or compile gcc or... I get the following output in /var/log/messages: Hum, for what it's worth, I

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Johannes Dieterich
Hello Tobias, I have to admitt, that I never had special interest in any temperatures of my notebook whilst it was still running 6.2. It just worked.. ;-) X and T series of the thinkpads are rather different, even the cores are completely different (I have a dualcore low-voltage version, I

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: X and T series of the thinkpads are rather different, even the cores are completely different (I have a dualcore low-voltage version, I assume yours is running on a dual Pentium m, or?). FWIW, I haven't seen any temperature

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:20:40PM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: X and T series of the thinkpads are rather different, even the cores are completely different (I have a dualcore low-voltage version, I assume yours is

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Johannes Dieterich
On 1/6/08, Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: X and T series of the thinkpads are rather different, even the cores are completely different (I have a dualcore low-voltage version, I assume yours is running on a

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Johannes Dieterich
On 1/6/08, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All temperatures were compared when the systems were idling. The variance in temperatures was astounding. In some cases, there was a almost a 20C difference between two machines, especially around the GPU area. In other cases, batteries

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:58 +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: On 1/6/08, Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: X and T series of the thinkpads are rather different, even the cores are completely different (I

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Nathan Lay
Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:58 +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: On 1/6/08, Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: X and T series of the thinkpads are rather different, even

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 20:22 -0500, Nathan Lay wrote: Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:58 +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: On 1/6/08, Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: