Re: [OT] overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-09 Thread Johannes Dieterich
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade/X_Series looks as if it could be valuable... Sorry for disturbing. On 1/9/08, Johannes Dieterich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > half offtopic: concerning the BIOS update: > > On 1/8/08, Nathan Lay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > If you

Re: [OT] overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-09 Thread Johannes Dieterich
Hello, half offtopic: concerning the BIOS update: On 1/8/08, Nathan Lay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you can, use DR-DOS (Caldera's DOS). Not to rag on FreeDOS or > anything, but I've had bad experiences with FreeDOS and BIOS updates. > > http://www.drdosprojects.de/ > > Best Regards, > N

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-07 Thread Nathan Lay
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 21:42 +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: Thanks for that reply! :-) On 1/7/08, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First -- the disclaimer -- mine is X60 (not X60s), but with 1.83GHz 32-bit CPU, so it should be so

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-07 Thread Nathan Lay
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 20:22 -0500, Nathan Lay wrote: Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:58 +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: On 1/6/08, Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 20

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-07 Thread Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 21:42 +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: > Thanks for that reply! :-) > > On 1/7/08, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > First -- the disclaimer -- mine is X60 (not X60s), but with 1.83GHz > > 32-bit CPU, so it should be somewhat similar to you

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-07 Thread Johannes Dieterich
Thanks for that reply! :-) On 1/7/08, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > First -- the disclaimer -- mine is X60 (not X60s), but with 1.83GHz > 32-bit CPU, so it should be somewhat similar to yours. At the moment it > has USB drivers loaded, which tends to bump CPU utiliza

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-07 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:55:32PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I won't even bother mentioning what happens when I run something that's > CPU or GPU intensive. I haven't had any crashes, but in some cases, > I've seen the GPU temperatures reach over 80C -- completely > unacceptable, and borderi

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:22:48 -0500 Nathan Lay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do notice, however, that FreeBSD seemed to never use the fan to its > potential on any of the Thinkpads I've used (T40 for 3 years, T43 for 3 > years). Comparably, Windows XP would rev the fan far higher than even > s

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 20:22 -0500, Nathan Lay wrote: > Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:58 +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: > > > >> On 1/6/08, Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Diete

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Nathan Lay
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:58 +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: On 1/6/08, Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: X and T series of the thinkpads are rather different, ev

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:58 +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: > On 1/6/08, Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: > > > X and T series of the thinkpads are rather different, even the cores are > > > completely diff

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Johannes Dieterich
On 1/6/08, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All temperatures were compared when the systems were idling. > > The variance in temperatures was astounding. In some cases, there was a > almost a 20C difference between two machines, especially around the GPU > area. In other cases, ba

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Johannes Dieterich
On 1/6/08, Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: > > X and T series of the thinkpads are rather different, even the cores are > > completely different (I have a dualcore low-voltage version, I assume > > yours is runn

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:20:40PM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: > > X and T series of the thinkpads are rather different, even the cores are > > completely different (I have a dualcore low-voltage version, I assume > > your

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Johannes Dieterich wrote: > X and T series of the thinkpads are rather different, even the cores are > completely different (I have a dualcore low-voltage version, I assume > yours is running on a dual Pentium m, or?). FWIW, I haven't seen any temperature

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Johannes Dieterich
Hello Tobias, I have to admitt, that I never had special interest in any temperatures of my notebook whilst it was still running 6.2. It just worked.. ;-) X and T series of the thinkpads are rather different, even the cores are completely different (I have a dualcore low-voltage version, I assume

Re: overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-06 Thread Tobias Roth
Johannes Dieterich wrote: > Hello everybody! > > Since the update from 6.2-STABLE to 7.0 I'm encountering problems with the > temperature of my Thinkpad X60s. Under heavy load, e.g., make builworld or > compile gcc or... I get the following output in /var/log/messages: Hum, for what it's worth, I