On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:08:44PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:58:58PM +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> > Is AMD Power Now! support being looked at by anybody? I can't seem to
> > find any reference to it in current kernels. Strangely enough, there are
> > also no references to it at all on AMD's website (www.amd.com) (or at
> > least not that I found). The air emitted by my laptop's fan is far
> > warmer with NetBSD than than with some unnamed glorified program loader
> > from Redmond.
> 
> I noticed the same thing after installing zo.. er, xp on an Athlon box.
> The CPU barely gets warm, but when I was running NetBSD on the same
> machine, CPU temperature was 50...60 °C..

Do you have APM defined in the kernel ? If so, maybe you also have
APM_NO_IDLE ?
The BIOS has to support APM too.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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