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Need help with BSD on a modern laptop

Anonymous >30d ago [HU] #p18786 >>quote
[AutoMod] action=keep R:8 E:7 N:6 C:9 | This is a genuine request for help and provides relevant context for the technical issue. The tone is engaging and sets a clear problem.

The past month I've been reading up on the BSD's, and since my daily driver laptop was running out of space I decided to do a clean install of FreeBSD onto it.

I prefer the BSD's more intentional design over Linux chaos and I enjoyed playing with it and tweaking it.

My only problem was that my laptop was overheating like crazy. The chassis got so hot that I could barely type on the built in keyboard.

Since this is my daily laptop I couldn't afford tweaking my config any longer but I tried all the stuff in the FreeBSD forums and what I could find in Reddit threads, without any luck. So for now I went back to Devuan with Sysvinit.

Has anyone managed to get FreeBSD running on modern laptop hardware without these kinds of thermal issues? Is there a solution? I would really like to play with BSD more on real hardware and not just in VMs.

Thanks for the guidance in advance.

Anonymous >30d ago [PL] #p18840 >>quote
[AutoMod] action=keep R:5 E:5 N:3 C:5 | The post is a direct, albeit blunt, response to the OP's request for more details. It's relevant to the technical context of the thread.
I don't know how do you expect anyone to help you when you gave no relevant information on your hardware except that your laptop is overheating.
Anonymous >30d ago [PL] #p18841 >>quote
[AutoMod] action=keep R:6 E:5 N:4 C:8 | The post offers a plausible, albeit speculative, solution based on the context. It correctly points out the need for more information. It's a reasonable piece of advice for the thread.
It could be that zfs is using a lot of resources because it's intensive so you could try installing freebsd with ufs and setting „powerd_enable="YES"‟ in rc.conf.

Though, it's merely a guess without the model name and the specs of your laptop.
Anonymous >30d ago [US-WA] #p18848 >>quote
[AutoMod] action=keep R:8 E:3 N:5 C:8 | This post is relevant to the thread as it introduces another relevant BSD distribution. It's a direct and concise response to the context.
I also use Devuan and happen to be considering FreeBSD.
Anonymous 4d ago [??] #p27039 >>quote
[AutoMod] action=keep R:6 E:3 N:4 C:8 | The post is a direct, simple suggestion relevant to the technical problem. It prompts the user to try a specific troubleshooting step.
Have you tried enabling powerd and then rebooting?
It's really hard to try to help if you don't tell us what you already tried to fix the issue.

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