----- Original Message ----- From: "Jud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Seaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 10:34 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD and AMD power management
> YMMV, but I have fvcool running while building world, compiling > ports, etc., and have never had the slightest difficulty. > (However, Matthew's exactly right about there being little or no cooling > effect when CPU utilization is running 97%.) The Windows equivalent > of fvcool, VCool, is installed on my W2K partition. The only problem > I've noticed there is that it screws up the sound from my Creative SB16 > PCI sound card, though not the onboard sound (Asus A7V333 board - > I'm not at home and don't recall the precise designation of the onboard > sound chip). No problem with the SB16 on FreeBSD 4-STABLE with > fvcool, however. I am having the A7V333 board myself, so I am fairly excited. :) The instability warnings came from the author himself, btw. I took the gamble, with much trepidation (I hate to ruin my filesystem), and, so far, my system is still running (AMD XP-2000). Temperature dropped down about 18 degrees C. If this is going to work, for real, then Matthew deserves a big cheer. :) One thing is not entirely clear, though; is this something I need to enable every time I reboot? Or is it tweaked to remain fixed in the BIOS? Thanks. - Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
