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Old 3rd June 2008
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Hi my laptop runs hot and my fan never stops. I want to load the cpufreq(4) driver to scale the frequency down when idle and up when needed. Unless I missed something from the man pages it kind of sounds like you can only change to one frequency at a time with just this driver. There is the powerd(8) utilty that is supposed to scale automatically. The adaptive mode appears to be the default mode with this.

So can I just set both these modules to load at boot time and expect something productive to happen? or does anyone have experience with these that can help otherwise. I have a dual core AMD Turion 64 if it matters any.

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EDIT: sorry i should mention i dont have my laptop with me right now so i can't test this out myself right now. im just looking for some quick advice on this. thanks.

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What FreeBSD release do you have? I had the same problems with my amd64 laptop (Acer 1501 lmi) with the 6.X branch . I had serious problems such as high temperatures, and critical thermal shutdowns.
In the FreeBSD 6.X you must load the cpufreq module, FreeBSD 7 does this by default and has improved cpufreq.

Now, with the FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 everything is working flawlessly on my laptop..

My rc.conf simply has these values:
powerd_enable="YES"
powerd_flags="-b min -a adaptive"

Do some sysctls:
sysctl hw.acpi.thermal
sysctl dev.cpufreq
sysctl dev.powernow

You must see if the cpufreq and passive_cooling are enabled.
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Thanks bro.

I'm using 7.0 right now. I'll set my modules like yours with an adaptive mode when plugged in and minimum mode when on batteries. I haven't had any noticeable problems with ACPI enabled yet so hopefully this works. I will post back if somethings not working.

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