s. keeling wrote: > I've been fighting with this for weeks, trying to learn everything I > need to know. Unfortunately, I don't appear to be getting anywhere. > > This box is an HP Pavilion dv4, AMD64. Lenny mostly runs great on it > (better than Sidux :-), however it's always running hot. The fan is > always on. I'd like to have this thing ramp its CPU frequency back to > its minimum when CPU load is close to zero. > > CPU load is barely ticking over on this thing in both cores, yet it's > running at 71 C in TZ01. How do I get it to ramp down its CPU Hz? It > doesn't need to be running at 2.x GHz, so why is it? It should ramp > up to that level when the OS has stuff to do, yes? Am I > misunderstanding something basic here? > > I've been through /etc/default fixing stuff there. I've fought with > /etc/cpufreqd.conf, to no result. "Restarting CPU Frequency daemon: > cpufreqd failed!" Ideas? I would expect this machine to be new > enough to handle cpufreq's latest abilities. > > (1) [root] infidel /root_ lsmod | grep cpu > cpufreq_powersave 1856 0 > cpufreq_userspace 3172 0 > cpufreq_stats 3776 0 > cpufreq_ondemand 6476 0 > freq_table 4224 2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand > cpufreq_conservative 5960 0 > > Thanks for enlightenment, if you have it. > I can't help beyond what others have posted. However, I had until recently, an Acer AMD64 laptop which had perennial overheating problems. Over the three years I had it I sent it back to Acer twice but never really got a resolution. I came to the conclusion that the non_Turion AMD64 chips aren't suited to a laptop environment although it didn't seem to get as hot running windows. It would shut itself down if I had too many Firefox windows open. Eventually, it became too much of an issue and I replaced it with a Thinkpad.
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