freebsd stable - Jan 2012 - Upgrade to 9.0 and Fan kick to high speed

I just upgraded from RC3 to release and now my pc fans are doing an high
to low every two seconds.  Ideas on why??

Thanks

Ben Adams

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:44:17PM -0500, benjamin adams
wrote:
> I just upgraded from RC3 to release and now my pc fans are doing an high
> to low every two seconds.  Ideas on why??
Lots of ideas on why, but whether or not any of them are applicable is a
separate topic.  :-)  For starters:

sysctl -a | grep freq
sysctl -a | grep acpi

And are you using powerd(8) at all?

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On 01/14/2012 07:59, Schaich Alonso wrote:
> System is running well for 6 hours now. Seems like disabling speedsteping 
> solved it (for me).
Take a look at http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption



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