overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

Johannes Dieterich dieterich.joh at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 7 12:42:12 PST 2008


Thanks for that reply! :-)

On 1/7/08, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko <gaijin.k at gmail.com> 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 utilization and
> temperature. It has UltraBase attached and is sitting on top of the
> aluminum passive cooler pad.

I guess the two should be rather similar. May I ask what you mean with
"aluminum passive cooler pad"? Is that located underneath your UltraBase? If
yes, does it help? Mine does not get that hot there.


>
> I does look shade cooler then yours, and fan is running at the lower
> speed.

An that is what makes me wonder...


I will try to list things that I do/have done, and you can compare them
> to your setup:
> -- BIOS is updated to the latest level (I do keep XP partition for this
> specific purpose).

That is not the case with mine because of the lack of a XP partition. Do you
have any idea whether these FreeDOS BIOS-flash mechanisms are working?


-- I run powerd:
> powerd_enable="YES"

Yes.


powerd_flags="-a adaptive -b adaptive -i 75 -r 65"

The later one (-i 75 -r 65) I've added now.


-- I set hw.pci.do_power_nodriver="3" in /boot/loader.conf

Done that too.


-- I run GNOME (please, no religious wars here)

No religious wars needed, I hope. ;-)


-- I set low CPU state to C2 in rc.conf
> performance_cx_lowest="C2"    # Online CPU idle state
> economy_cx_lowest="C2"       # Offline CPU idle state

Done.

Concerning the later cpufreq discussion: done that too. So far so good. The
cpufreq module gives

module_register: module pci/ichss_pci already exists!
Module pci/ichss_pci failed to register: 17
module_register: module cpu/ichss already exists!
Module cpu/ichss failed to register: 17
module_register: module cpu/est already exists!
Module cpu/est failed to register: 17
module_register: module cpu/p4tcc already exists!
Module cpu/p4tcc failed to register: 17
module_register: module cpu/powernow already exists!
Module cpu/powernow failed to register: 17
module_register: module cpu/smist already exists!
Module cpu/smist failed to register: 17

in the booting process.

Then portupgrade gcc and trying to trace it with dev.acpi_ibm:

dev.acpi_ibm.0.%desc: IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%driver: acpi_ibm
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%location: handle=\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.HKEY
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=IBM0068 _UID=0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.initialmask: 2060
dev.acpi_ibm.0.availmask: 16777215
dev.acpi_ibm.0.events: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.eventmask: 2060
dev.acpi_ibm.0.hotkey: 1443
dev.acpi_ibm.0.lcd_brightness: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.volume: 9
dev.acpi_ibm.0.mute: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.thinklight: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.bluetooth: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.wlan: 1
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: 3450
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: 7
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: 1
dev.acpi_ibm.0.thermal: 57 56 -1 54 37 -1 32 -1

when it started. Rather healthy although the fan is rather high.

dev.acpi_ibm.0.%desc: IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%driver: acpi_ibm
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%location: handle=\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.HKEY
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=IBM0068 _UID=0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.initialmask: 2060
dev.acpi_ibm.0.availmask: 16777215
dev.acpi_ibm.0.events: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.eventmask: 2060
dev.acpi_ibm.0.hotkey: 1443
dev.acpi_ibm.0.lcd_brightness: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.volume: 9
dev.acpi_ibm.0.mute: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.thinklight: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.bluetooth: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.wlan: 1
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: 4081
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: 7
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: 1
dev.acpi_ibm.0.thermal: 81 57 -1 79 37 -1 32 -1

some ten minutes later.

dev.acpi_ibm.0.%desc: IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%driver: acpi_ibm
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%location: handle=\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.HKEY
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=IBM0068 _UID=0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.initialmask: 2060
dev.acpi_ibm.0.availmask: 16777215
dev.acpi_ibm.0.events: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.eventmask: 2060
dev.acpi_ibm.0.hotkey: 1443
dev.acpi_ibm.0.lcd_brightness: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.volume: 9
dev.acpi_ibm.0.mute: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.thinklight: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.bluetooth: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.wlan: 1
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: 4709
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: 7
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: 1
dev.acpi_ibm.0.thermal: 87 57 -1 85 37 -1 32 -1


again ten minutes more.

dev.acpi_ibm.0.%desc: IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%driver: acpi_ibm
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%location: handle=\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.HKEY
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=IBM0068 _UID=0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.initialmask: 2060
dev.acpi_ibm.0.availmask: 16777215
dev.acpi_ibm.0.events: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.eventmask: 2060
dev.acpi_ibm.0.hotkey: 1443
dev.acpi_ibm.0.lcd_brightness: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.volume: 9
dev.acpi_ibm.0.mute: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.thinklight: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.bluetooth: 0
dev.acpi_ibm.0.wlan: 1
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: 4675
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: 7
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: 1
dev.acpi_ibm.0.thermal: 88 59 -1 86 37 -1 32 -1

and this some ten/fifteen minutes before overheat. I find it remarkable that
it apparently suddenly goes some almost 40 (!) degrees up.

So what is left now is a BIOS update, or? Does
http://taint.org/2007/04/23/153737a.html sound doable for anyone?

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Johannes


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