loud fan pavilion ze2000

[ito]

On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 18:49 +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:39:04 -0500, ito wrote:
>  > Ok, 
>  > 
>  >      So I have tried looking around more, and working on powerd.There seems 
>  > to be no difference in any change I make aside from the temperature staying 
>  > below where I set PSV.
>  > 
>  > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0_PSV: 85C
>  > 
>  > (set back to what it was)
> 
> So does your noisy fan run less often with powerd running?  Does it run 
> cooler when idle now?  What freq does it run at when idle?  Here I run 
> gkrellm which displays freq and temperature among many other goodies.
> 

Ian,


I'm sorry, I forgot to answer the actual points;

PSV keeps it below where it is set.

The fan continues to run approx. every 20 sec, for 14 sec

Currently (with it set to HIGH in /etc/rc.conf) it runs at a consistent
1298, at C2 99% of the time.

Occasionally dips down to 1135 which does not seem to coincide with fan
operation.

This computer is by no means a workhorse, and even when I do work it it
more or stays the same (fan wise).  Like running rezound and gnuitar
while playing guitar through it and looping on rezound.

I think I have some issues with ports or pkg_add databases, I cannot
install it.  But I will, probably.  I was trying to use the 'watch'
command to update 'sysctl' but I must have forgotten the command that
keeps tabs on a command printing the results periodically. 



Cheers,

eg