Re: devd and/or ACPI not reporting a heat problem

2010-06-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <4c187778.9060...@freebsd.org> Doug Barton writes: : Howdy, : : I thought my heat problems were over with this laptop thanks to all : the great suggestions I've received about powerd, no stepping, etc. (I : also propped up both the back and the front to make a nice big air

Re: devd and/or ACPI not reporting a heat problem

2010-06-16 Thread Doug Barton
On 6/16/2010 5:05 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > You can reduce the polling interval by changing > hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate (it is in seconds it seems) to a lower value. Thanks, I'll give that a try, although with the cleaning I gave it yesterday I'm hoping to avoid heat problems for a while. :)

Re: devd and/or ACPI not reporting a heat problem

2010-06-16 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 3:04:24 am Doug Barton wrote: > Howdy, > > I thought my heat problems were over with this laptop thanks to all the > great suggestions I've received about powerd, no stepping, etc. (I also > propped up both the back and the front to make a nice big air pocket.) > I've

devd and/or ACPI not reporting a heat problem

2010-06-16 Thread Doug Barton
Howdy, I thought my heat problems were over with this laptop thanks to all the great suggestions I've received about powerd, no stepping, etc. (I also propped up both the back and the front to make a nice big air pocket.) I've always been pretty religious about blowing the dust off the fans a