HP Pavilion DV6 overheats under FreeBSD

[Andriy Gapon]

on 18/03/2011 14:35 Thor Ablestar said the following:
> Hello!
> 
> On 03/11/11 22:07, Thor Ablestar wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Notebook HP Pavilion DV6-3109er (Mobile Phenom II x4, double Mobility Radeon)
>> keeps processor temperature about 60 degC under FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE GENERIC
>> kernel, and under custom kernel with device acpi_video and acpi_hp. The battery
>> life is probably 80 minutes, system fan works at low RPM.
>> Data files are (If my Apache is OK) http://plasmodius.dyndns.org/pavilion - if
>> not, make me know.
> I have looked at the guts of my asl and have found basically the following:
> 
>  If (_OSI ("Windows 2006"))
>  {
>     Store (0x40, TPOS)
> }
> 
> 
> and the lot of "If (LEqual (TPOS, 0x40))" everywhere, including thermal and video
> sections.
> 
> Can it mean that some functions I need are specifically Windows-only and
> intentionally disabled in other systems (add Windows conspiration paranoid to taste)?

FreeBSD, or to be precise the ACPICA version in FreeBSD, should return true in
that query.

-- 
Andriy Gapon