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From: Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My CPU seems to run hotter with Gentoo as opposed to Windows XP
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:20:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060713112027.6ddfbfa1@mating-tux.renatik.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B5FA65.8040401@bigpond.net.au>

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On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:46:45 +1000 Richard Watson <waty@bigpond.net.au>
wrote:
> Hi all, I've loaded Gentoo on a Compaq nx 6150 notebook which reports
> a Intel (R) Pentium (R) M Processor 1.73GHz Stepping 08 CPU at dmesg.
> 
> For some reason the CPU seems to run very hot with a lot of fan
> activity compared to when I boot XP, plus overall performance seems
> slow in comparisom to XP with Gnome freezing for a few seconds on
> occasion as though the system is stretched.
> 
> Does this make sense to anyone? Is there a way of cooling how the CPU
> runs?

You have to configure your system to scale down the CPU frequency when
idle. Read this Howto:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml#doc_chap3


Cheers,
Renat

-- 
Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen,
durch die sie entstanden sind.
                                              (Einstein)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-13  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-13  7:46 [gentoo-user] My CPU seems to run hotter with Gentoo as opposed to Windows XP Richard Watson
2006-07-13  8:15 ` Janusz Bossy
2006-07-13  9:20 ` Renat Golubchyk [this message]
2006-07-13 16:51   ` Richard Fish

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