On 27 October 2008 c. 14:45:04 Amarendra Godbole wrote:
> Hello misc@
>
> My IBM (Lenovo) X60 laptop heats up considerably and the battery also
> discharges faster, when I boot into OpenBSD. This does not seem to be
> the case when I boot it into Windows XP.
>
> The relevant temperature sysctls are:
> hw.sensors.acpitz0.temp0=73.05 degC (zone temperature)
> hw.sensors.acpitz1.temp0=72.05 degC (zone temperature)
> hw.sensors.cpu0.temp0=72.00 degC
> hw.sensors.aps0.temp0=52.00 degC
> hw.sensors.aps0.temp1=52.00 degC
>
> dmesg is put up at http://www.obscure.org/~amunix/tmp/dmesg
>
> I did read about SpeedStep, and slowing down the processor so that it
> consumes less power - so I am going to try it out by tweaking sysctl
> "hw.cpuspeed" and changing it from 1829 to 1000, but I am not sure if
> this would solve the problem.
>
> Has anyone encountered something similar? If yes, I'd appreciate tips
> to fix this
> (apart from the SpeedStepping stuff -- will post my findings. Thanks).
Read apmd(8). I have ~ same actual working times on WinXP and OpenBSD.
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