Lenovo Thinkpad t61p and FreeBSD?

[Subhro]

I had a feeling nvidia does not work with amd64??

Subhro

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Steven Schlansker
<stevenschlansker at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> On Jun 3, 2008, at 5:22 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:51:05AM -0400, Michael C Voorhis wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> ... and if anyone has comments about the hardware in general.
>>
>> Based on my experiences with my workplace-provided T60p, it's safe to
>> say I'll never recommend a Lenovo product.  The temperatures of these
>> laptops are absolutely insane, supported by an incredibly loud fan.  I'm
>> not interested in a product that can have a GPU reaching temperatures of
>> almost 70C **while idling**.
>
> Interesting, I've had almost the opposite experience.  I have the T61p with
> the NVIDIA Quadro card.  If I run a game, the video card becomes almost too
> hot to have on my lap rather quickly (I just put it on a magazine or
> something and it's fine), but if it's idle the temperature is totally
> comfortable on my lap.  It also takes only about 5 minutes to cool off.  The
> fan is almost silent.  Perhaps they fixed the issues you describe with the
> revision?
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