Re: [gentoo-user] My CPU seems to run hotter with Gentoo as opposed to Windows XP

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/13/06, Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 Btw, I recommend the simplest approach: 1. Build your kernel with the 'ondemand

Re: [gentoo-user] My CPU seems to run hotter with Gentoo as opposed to Windows XP

2006-07-13 Thread Renat Golubchyk
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 > activit

Re: [gentoo-user] My CPU seems to run hotter with Gentoo as opposed to Windows XP

2006-07-13 Thread Janusz Bossy
On 7/13/06, Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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.