X60 overheating with 7.1

[Ilya Bakulin]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:37:15 -0500
George Neville-Neil <gnn at neville-neil.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just got a Thinkpad X60 and have installed 7.1 STABLE on it.   
> Basically 7.1 and
> then updated to stable as of 10 Jan.  I have one major problem and  
> that is
> overheating.  I cannot run even a long compile without the CPU going  
> to 97C
> and shutting down.  Trying to do something like a buildkernel with -j  
> anything other
> than 1 also fails.
> 
> I found this thread on stable@
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039452.html
> 
> but have not found anything to address the problem.
> 
> One change I did make was to switch from ULE to 4BSD, since the thread  
> talked
> about going from 6.2, where 4BSD is the default, to 7.0.  This did not  
> have any
> appreciable effect.
> 
> The only physical change to the machine was to go from a spinning HDD,  
> to a Flash
> based SSD (Intel 80G).  I don't think the flash drive is adding heat  
> but perhaps
> the fact that I/O is now faster is leading to overheating?
> 
> Thoughts or suggestions welcome.
> 
> Best,
> George
> 
> 
Did you try using powerd and/or Cx states of your processor? 
There are several discussions about these things found at mobile@, stable@ and many other places. For example, this thread at FreeBSD forums: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=172

P.S. As I know from reading list discussions, some IBM Thinkpads really have problems with overheating.
You may also read this thread, especially about your laptop model:  http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2008-01/msg00100.html

And here is how Josh Paetzel managed to get rid of overheating (using Lenovo T61): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg96655.html

Hope these links will help you.
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Ilya Bakulin <webmaster at kibab.com>
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