Re: Heating issues with FreeBSD on laptop

From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve_at_sohara.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:26:45 UTC 
On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:09:41 +0530
Saniya Maheshwari <saniya.mah@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

	The first thought is - does it show these symptoms in other
operating systems (try a few bootable images) ? If it does then you're
probably looking at a hardware problem - most likely the heatsink is no
longer in good thermal contact with the CPU. 

	If not then we're chasing a FreeBSD problem. It may well be
worthwhile installing the GPU driver, certainly worth trying - there are a
*lot* of nvidia driver packages so read the docs carefully to get the right
one.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>