* Miles Keaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1236 13:36]: > Can FreeBSD tell a Centrino (Pentium-M) CPU to decrease its CPU power? > > I have a laptop (Gateway 450ROG) whose CPU seems to run hotter in > FreeBSD doing *nothing* than it does in Windows doing almost anything. > So much so that the loud "emergency" fan kicks on often to cool the > CPU, even when the computer is doing nothing at all. > > I'm using the newest FreeBSD 5.3 release, but had this same problem with 4.10. > > Any advice? Anything I can put in the kernel or boot-scripts to tell > this Centrino to take it easy?
Install sysutils/estctrl, works for me. -- What have you done to the cat? It looks half-dead. - Schroedinger's wife Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"