Lenovo IBM Thinkpad T60

[Richard Arends]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 08:30:51AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:

Kevin,

> > > Make sure that you install radeontool
> > Unfortunate it does not look to work for the T60.
> 
> This is very odd. What video chipset does your system use? The tools is
> supposed to be very hardware agnostic and works on every Radeon system I
> have tried it on including a variety of controllers.
 
I have a 'ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 HyperMemory'

> What I SHOULD have said was to add cpufreq_load="YES" to your
> /boot/loader.conf. 

Okay, done.

> I think disk is a significant issue. Widows is fairly aggressive in
> powering down the disk. There are tools in ports to allow you to do this,
> but I have not had the time to play with them very much and have no idea
> if they are beneficial.

That's a good one, if i find the time i will look in to it. I have written
a simple fancontrol script, which only looks at cpu-temp, but i will not
complete it. My first tests show me that the time that the fan can stopped
completly is short, so the benefit is very small at this moment.

-- 
Regards,

Richard.