Lenovo Thinkpad t61p and FreeBSD?

[Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 07:45 -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 June 2008 07:25:13 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:13:27AM -0400, nlaroche at vt.edu wrote:
> > > Quoting nlaroche at vt.edu:
> > > > Quoting Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at FreeBSD.org>:
> > > > > Based on my experiences with my workplace-provided T60p, it's safe to
> > > > > say I'll never recommend a Lenovo product.  The temperatures of these
> > > > > laptops are absolutely insane, supported by an incredibly loud fan. 
> > > > > I'm not interested in a product that can have a GPU reaching
> > > > > temperatures of almost 70C **while idling**.
> > > >
> > > > I purchased a T60p about two months ago and I haven't had any of these
> > > > happen (yet?) running Ubuntu 7.10. The machine only gets slightly warm
> > > > to the touch after a few hours idling.
> > > >
> > > > Does your fan run all the time that loud? I'm wondering if there were
> > > > changes made at the factory to fix this type of problem if it was wide
> > > > spread.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Nick LaRoche
> > >
> > > That was a T61p not a T60p
> >
> > It really doesn't matter in this case; T60p, T60p (widescreen), T61p,
> > X60p, etc...  They all behave the same way when it comes to
> > temperatures: incredibly high, sometimes to the point of the system
> > shutting off (for some).
> 
> My T60p is really unusable for anything cpu intensive under FreeBSD.  Even 
> with the ibm acpi addons loaded and the fan set to it's highest setting it 
> only turns at 3700rpm, which isn't enough to keep it from shutting down due 
> to heat.  (eg over 100C)
> 
> I'm interested in whatever cooling solutions people have...
> 
You can read through this thread:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=141019+0
+/usr/local/www/db/text/2008/freebsd-acpi/20080217.freebsd-acpi

which mentions at least two ways to approach it -- the right one from
the referenced message forward. 

HTH,

-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)