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