Hi Guys,
Just yesterday I installed FreeBSD on my laptop.
I eventually managed to overcome the uefi multiboot with other OSes(I use efibootmgr from linux to boot into FreeBSD) issue,the Xfce4 not starting issue(I was missing the drm-kmod package) and the Lightdm not starting issue (I used sddm instead).
So FINALLY now everything is working smoothly and I really like the simple almost "archetypical" feel I get when running FreeBSD.
There is only one thing that really bothers me:
The fans of my laptop become really noisy with the slightest task like for example opening a web browser etc.
I get roughly the same amount of noise as If I were compiling packages from source.
I DID eventually enable "powerd" in rc.conf and this somehow improved the situation a bit BUT not totally.
The fact remains that my FreeBSD is more noisy than it should(comparing it to my Linuxes).
I checked "top" and I couldnt identify any problematic processes both memory and cpu-wise....
I keep getting a bunch of error messages in "dmesg" about :
hdac0 command timeout on address 0
Other than that I am at loss how to troubleshoot the problem.
I would prefer if my FreeBSD didn't "struggle" so much.....
What would the respected community advise me to do?
Thanks a lot,
Andreas
Just yesterday I installed FreeBSD on my laptop.
I eventually managed to overcome the uefi multiboot with other OSes(I use efibootmgr from linux to boot into FreeBSD) issue,the Xfce4 not starting issue(I was missing the drm-kmod package) and the Lightdm not starting issue (I used sddm instead).
So FINALLY now everything is working smoothly and I really like the simple almost "archetypical" feel I get when running FreeBSD.
There is only one thing that really bothers me:
The fans of my laptop become really noisy with the slightest task like for example opening a web browser etc.
I get roughly the same amount of noise as If I were compiling packages from source.
I DID eventually enable "powerd" in rc.conf and this somehow improved the situation a bit BUT not totally.
The fact remains that my FreeBSD is more noisy than it should(comparing it to my Linuxes).
I checked "top" and I couldnt identify any problematic processes both memory and cpu-wise....
I keep getting a bunch of error messages in "dmesg" about :
hdac0 command timeout on address 0
Other than that I am at loss how to troubleshoot the problem.
I would prefer if my FreeBSD didn't "struggle" so much.....
What would the respected community advise me to do?
Thanks a lot,
Andreas
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