Removal of legacy X.Org (aka non-WITH_NEW_XORG)

Zenny garbytrash at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 07:51:06 UTC 2014


Hi Adrian:

I use hardwares for both.

For temperature, I use IR Thermogun like
http://www.amazon.com/BAFX-Products-Infrared-Thermometer-Includes/dp/B00NI3HNQK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1414050390&sr=8-3&keywords=infrared+thermometer

For power monitor, I use a wattmeter like:
http://www.amazon.com/P3-P4400-Electricity-Usage-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU

Hope this clarifies!





On 10/22/14, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> How are you measuring the CPU temperature and power consumption?
>
> Which version of PCBSD did you install?
>
>
>
> -a
>
>
> On 21 October 2014 23:25, Zenny <garbytrash at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Even with new xorg, two things didn't work with my Radeon 3 head cards:
>>
>> 1. console switching did not work
>> 2. hdmi audio did not work.
>>
>> Tried also with PCBSD, the same results. I gave up and installed linux
>> in the same machine, both worked fine in addition to:
>>
>> 1. booting time is very fast
>> 2. thermal management is better (usually the cpu temps are 31-40 in
>> linux default installation whereas the temp remains in the range of up
>> to 49-63 with all the tweaks performed.)
>> 3. Power consumption is lower in linux than freebsd (76watts compared
>> to 126watts till the xorg started)
>>
>> These are some of the stuffs that needs to be addressed despite
>> freebsd being overwhelmingly stable.
>>
>> On 10/20/14, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> On 20.10.2014 15:54, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
>>>> On 20.10.2014 14:16, Pete French wrote:
>>>>>> What version of FreeBSD do you use?
>>>>>
>>>>> 9.2
>>>>
>>>> You're right, there seems to be something wrong. I'll discuss this with
>>>> the graphics team.
>>>
>>> Koop Mast just committed a fix to the Ports tree.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>>>
>>>
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