Monday, October 28, 2019

Re: Fan spinning constantly on Lenovo X1C and 6.6

I can't speak for Josh, but I'm on a fresh install. What's strange is that for the fan to come back to normal noise levels I have to put the laptop to sleep with zzz, otherwise it just keeps spinning at full speed.

Il 28 ottobre 2019 09:22:25 CET, Dumitru Moldovan <dumol@gmx.com> ha scritto:
>On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 08:51:16AM +0200, Josh wrote:
>>
>>After upgrading from 6.5 to 6.6 following the procedure [1], my Lenovo
>>X1C 6G is getting hot all the time.
>>Fan is constantly spinning at 4000+rpm even even if its just editing a
>>note in zim.
>>If I let the laptop idling, it will take quite some time for the fan
>>to stop even if there is no high cpu usage processes (showing top CS
>>processes).
>
>Perhaps stating the obvious, but have you tried starting Firefox in
>safe
>mode? Or even with a fresh profile?
>
>I have two Firefox profiles that work just fine with 69.0.2 after
>upgrading to OpenBSD 6.6, but you never know... One of my profiles is
>quite old, have used it over the years in four OS'es (Linux, FreeBSD,
>OpenBSD, NetBSD). Could not have done it without weekly backups, which
>allowed me to restore a sane profile when Firefox went beserk, which
>happened a few times.

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