Re: Heating issues with FreeBSD on laptop
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 05:08:30 UTC
On 27 September 2022 2:39:41 am AEST, Saniya Maheshwari <saniya.mah@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed FreeBSD on my laptop, and everything went smoothly, > except one thing that my laptop seems to be a little warm and noisy > (due to the fans) even when it's idle. What make and model laptop? What version of FreeBSD? > Following some steps on other forums, I tried the following: > > $ sysctl 'hw.acpi.thermal' > > This gives me an 'unknown oid' error. > > $ sysctl -a | grep temp > > This gives no results. Please show results of $ sysctl hw.acpi If none, acpi.ko isn't loaded. Otherwise select Verbose Booting from the startup menu, and scan results in /var/run/dmesg.boot to look for errors while booting. You may need to put that file up on some site, and post a link to it here. > After running > > # kldload coretemp > > and retrying: > > $ sysctl -a | grep temperature > > I do get the CPU temperature values: > > dev.cpu.15.temperature: 51.0C > dev.cpu.13.temperature: 50.0C > dev.cpu.11.temperature: 50.0C > ... > > All this is when the laptop is absolutely idle with just the shell > running in the TTY. I can confirm that > > # top > > shows the same (CPU 100% idle). > > I'm not sure what is going wrong and would be grateful for any help. How about: $ sysctl -a | grep fan cheers, Ian