On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:46:45 +1000 Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I've loaded Gentoo on a Compaq nx 6150 notebook which reports > a Intel (R) Pentium (R) M Processor 1.73GHz Stepping 08 CPU at dmesg. > > For some reason the CPU seems to run very hot with a lot of fan > activity compared to when I boot XP, plus overall performance seems > slow in comparisom to XP with Gnome freezing for a few seconds on > occasion as though the system is stretched. > > Does this make sense to anyone? Is there a way of cooling how the CPU > runs?
You have to configure your system to scale down the CPU frequency when idle. Read this Howto: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml#doc_chap3 Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein)
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