TECRA A9-S9017 -- Idles too hot -- Hardware Support

[freebsd_user at guice.ath.cx]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 05:55:05AM -0500, Wes Morgan wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, freebsd_user at guice.ath.cx wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 12:00:00AM +0000, email at WORKSTATION.guice.ath.cx 
> >wrote:
> >	FROM THE LAST MESSAGE ...
> >>
> >Attempting to: --> sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq
> >dev.cpu.0.freq: 2201	<-- has gone down to 2200; no lowwer.
> >Attempting to: --> sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature
> >hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 61.0C
> 
> 61C? My laptop is routinely that temperature or higher, even in XP. A 
> laptop is going to be much hotter than a desktop.

While I am inclined to agree with you on that specific temperature
issue, 61.0C not that hot, our concern is that the temp is 61.0C while doing 
absolutly nothing (idling), for hours on end.  We have come upon some 
new data/findings which we're sorting out and will be responding to
and/or addressing in the next msg to this thread. 
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