On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:18 PM, STeve Andre' <and...@msu.edu> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 May 2010 15:09:17 Robert wrote: >> On Tue, 25 May 2010 13:50:57 -0400 >> >> Michael Seney <blowfis...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Getting back to the original question. Will this "really" ruin my >> > laptop over time if I continue to run OpenBSD on it with ACPI >> > disabled? >> >> unlikely. >> your systems should regulate the fan on its own when needed, >> even without an acpi enabled os. >> if it is doin that, don't worry. > > You can watch the temperature yourself: > > paladin ~/ham/ sysctl hw | grep temp > hw.sensors.acpitz0.temp0=67.00 degC (zone temperature) > hw.sensors.acpitz1.temp0=63.00 degC (zone temperature) > hw.sensors.acpithinkpad0.temp0=67.00 degC > hw.sensors.acpithinkpad0.temp1=54.00 degC > hw.sensors.acpithinkpad0.temp2=38.00 degC > hw.sensors.acpithinkpad0.temp3=74.00 degC > hw.sensors.acpithinkpad0.temp4=40.00 degC > hw.sensors.acpithinkpad0.temp6=35.00 degC > hw.sensors.cpu0.temp0=58.00 degC > hw.sensors.aps0.temp0=74.00 degC > hw.sensors.aps0.temp1=74.00 degC > > temp3 on my Thinkpad W500 is the cpu temp. You can make a script > to watch for that and do something if it gets too high. This thinkpad > automatically shuts down past 92C, annoying but it will save the > hardware. > > --STeve Andre' > >
Okay cool thanks guys!
