Re: OpenBSD usefulness as laptop workstation

From: Adrian Sanabria <adrian(at)afsthumper.com>
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 13:52:15 EDT

I have an ancient (by today's standards) Toshiba, a 740CDT P166MMX, circa 1997, and OpenBSD 3.2 runs great on it without any hacks or all-nighters. Toshibas, (esp. the Tecras), are great workhorses in my opinion. The hardware is first rate and has never failed me in any way. This is a solid little workstation with the RAM maxed at 144MB.

As for the heat, I usually use mine on cool flat surfaces (desk, coffee table, etc.). I don't know about yours, but mine has two little stands that flip out so that the back-end of the laptop is elevated about an inch. This helps dissipate heat. If you don't have the stands, I suppose you could improvise. When the temp gets too high, the internal fan turns on, but that only happens to me when I run the CPU at 100% for >10 minutes.

I'm not sure about OpenBSD, but there are toshiba utilities for Linux that allow you to turn the internal fan on and off manually with a simple command. I think this utility requires the "Toshiba Laptop" option to be compiled into the kernel. Since I've converted recently to OpenBSD, will someone help me out here? Does a similar thing exist natively for OpenBSD, if so, has anyone used it? It can be handy to control your laptop fan manually, albeit potentially dangerous...

--Adrian

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