2009/11/29 Steven Friedrich <free...@insightbb.com>: > On Sunday 29 November 2009 11:03:28 am you wrote: >> 2009/11/29 Steven Friedrich <free...@insightbb.com>: >> > I booted my HP Pavilion zd8215us and I immediately invoked >> > chkCPUTemperature. The first temp reported was 52C, which is 125.6F. This >> > leads me to believe that acpi has an anomaly regarding temperature >> > measurement. The ambient temp was 71F (21.6C). The machine had been off >> > for over eight hours. >> >> I'm not sure. My laptop shows about 59C as soon as I can >> log in, in a room kept around 16C ambient. It rather quickly >> drops to <40C if I let it idle with powerd doing its thing. >> > Thanks for the response. One question though, what OS are you running. > > The reason I ask is because I want to discover if it's FreeBSD specific or > possibly affecting Linux distros as well. And if you're running FreeBSD, which > version. >
I think CPU use/temp during boot-up _could_ vary a lot from one operating system to another, I don't know that it must, though, since the whole business is arcane and full of magic (much like poutine). FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #1: Mon Nov 23 13:47:06 EST 2009 amd64 It's a turion x2 of 1990MHz I only had windows on long enough to burn one CD back in February, so I have not the least clue how it behaved (besides terribly). I can't find any way to get the actual temperature values under Opensolaris, but I do dual boot. It spends so much time starting so many mind-bogglingly worthless services prior to giving me a log-in prompt that I'm not sure the comparison is fair. The fan usually kick into high prior to the log-in prompt, though. Opensolaris is pretty horrible in terms of performance and battery life compared to FreeBSD. It's also like a strange, alien wasteland what with bash & gnome & other linuxisms, except pfexec. pfexec rocks. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"