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

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