Hi Everyone,
A little bit of background on my setup:
I moved to FreeBSD from Windows due to some complications with malware (you can check out my story through my shameless blog plug).
More recently, I had to give up the Lenovo W510 laptop as I was changing jobs. My dad had a spare Lenovo T61 so I decided to use it. A number of things were different, most were just modules. The most important I think is that this Lenovo T61 laptop has a Nvidia GPU where as the Lenovo W510 had an Intel/Nvidia hybrid GPU setup (to which I only used the Intel for compatibility purposes).
Now, on the Lenovo W510 I did notice some heat problems. Sometimes, when I compiled VLC for example, I saw 100C on my 8 CPUs, but nominally it sat at 85C - still very hot. On this Lenovo T61 I am seeing an idle temperature of 95C on the 2 CPUs. My strongest suggestion is some mis-configuration with Xorg or something, but I don't know where to start as I am using the pre-compiled binary Nvidia driver package.
I looked at the TuningPowerConsumption wiki, but it did not change anything (perhaps I did it wrong). As you might guess, I'm pretty new to FreeBSD.
Thank you all in advance for you help
A little bit of background on my setup:
I moved to FreeBSD from Windows due to some complications with malware (you can check out my story through my shameless blog plug).
More recently, I had to give up the Lenovo W510 laptop as I was changing jobs. My dad had a spare Lenovo T61 so I decided to use it. A number of things were different, most were just modules. The most important I think is that this Lenovo T61 laptop has a Nvidia GPU where as the Lenovo W510 had an Intel/Nvidia hybrid GPU setup (to which I only used the Intel for compatibility purposes).
Now, on the Lenovo W510 I did notice some heat problems. Sometimes, when I compiled VLC for example, I saw 100C on my 8 CPUs, but nominally it sat at 85C - still very hot. On this Lenovo T61 I am seeing an idle temperature of 95C on the 2 CPUs. My strongest suggestion is some mis-configuration with Xorg or something, but I don't know where to start as I am using the pre-compiled binary Nvidia driver package.
I looked at the TuningPowerConsumption wiki, but it did not change anything (perhaps I did it wrong). As you might guess, I'm pretty new to FreeBSD.
Thank you all in advance for you help