Re: Changing temperature trip points

Pavel Machek
2002-11-03T19:56:16Z

Hi!

> I did in fact try that, and while it lets me change the values, they
> don't actually seem to affect the kernel's idea of when the fan should
> come on, if at all. I set the active trip point to 45 C and the passive
> to 50 C, then ran a compile to see if the fan triggered. While the
> temperature got above 50 C, the fan never came on. In fact, I don't
> know if the fan would come on even if the originally-specified trip
> points were reached. Either way, this isn't exactly the most comforting
> situation to observe.

That's because your fan is driven by hardware, not ACPI. I see it
here, too. Passive cooling should work, through.
Pavel
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