ericbsd wrote: ↑Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:52 pm Let me know if you need anything else.

Thank you. No success fooling with drivers. I'm going to check the linux forums as I do see overheating as a subject in the linuxquestions site. Thank you for trying..

- huck

Wow. I was having the same issue and did a search and landed in here.. and that code solved the problem. Thank you, Vermilion. I just wish my brightness buttons worked. Anyway to address that? This is an HP "Envy" laptop with traditional (American) English keyboard.

- huck

Thank you! And may you and yours have a healthy and happy Christmas!

60.1 now.

Oh I see a new link there, I'll look at that. Thank you.

Now it's 57.1, just from browsing the web for a few minutes. Feels hot.

What driver are you running right now? In your bios can you disable Intel driver? to have CPU temperature look at this. https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-determine-processor-cpu-temperature-command/ for hot cpu those link might help: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-freebsd-cpu-scaling-...

ericbsd wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:31 pm Did you set powerd?

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sudo rc-update add powerd default

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sudo rc-service powerd start

Yes I received "* rc-update: powerd already installed in runlevel `default'; skipping" and " WARNING: powerd has already been started" after those commands.

Hmm... over 70 views of this thread and no responses. I'm of course not complaining about the GhostBSD users and devs here, just that this problem might not be resolvable if so many are reading of it and not remarking. I can't let my laptop age quickly by running so hot (it's not getting any better)...

Trying FreeBSD reminded me of the time several years ago I tried Gentoo Linux.

GhostBSD has really improved and is now absolutly competitive with Easy-to-use Linux Distros. Technical quality is above Linux in some points! (Video/Audio) Yes I do agree. I also think that BSD in general could move up in popularity when it's seen by more as a way to avoid systemd (at least for no...