notebook cpu throttling

[Ghirai]

Hello Roland,

Monday, May 21, 2007, 11:08:13 PM, you wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:52:22PM +0300, Ghirai wrote:
>> Hello list,
>> 
>> I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a
>> Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 (Core Duo).
>> 
>> Everything works fine, except the cpu throttling,
>> which makes the fan start quite often.
>> 
>> Is there any way to fix this?

> You need to do three things (as root);

> 1) Load the cpufreq module 'kldload cpufreq'.
> 2) Put 'powerd_enable="YES"' in your /etc/rc.conf
> 2) Start powerd: '/etc/rc.d/powerd start'

> Roland

Thanks for the hint.

I did that, but now xorg constantly uses 20-30% CPU.

CPUs were running cooler indeed, but everything ran jerky,
because of the xorg cpu usage.

Note that i haven't upgraded to 7.2 yet,
but i don't think this is the problem.

-- 
Best regards,
Ghirai.