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From: Nate Lawson <nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>
To: Nate Grey <nate-XtQPfPCVGG7srOwW+9ziJQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Acer Aspire 1601LC tempertature & ACPI
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:50:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040405114950.E22024@root.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404022101.54233-Ulv+RfhiHhw@public.gmane.org>

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Nate Grey wrote:
> On Friday 02 April 2004 18:52, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote:
> > With my Acer Aspire 1705SMi, thermal zone would report temperature as 255C
> > repeatedly during bootup and reboot.
> > I disabled the thermal zone module, as the BIOS will supposedly shut down
> > the laptop if the temperature is really too high.
> >
> > Oisín
>
> It's a solution... Are you sure that the cpu will not reach an high
> temperature due to a not perfect cooling management?
> Is it safe disable the thermal module so that there's not a temperature check?

CPU shutdown is hardware-controlled, so yes.  There are ways on both
FreeBSD and Linux to "smooth" out the 255C reported temps so they don't
cause a shutdown.

-Nate


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-05 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-02 16:53 Acer Aspire 1601LC tempertature & ACPI Nate Grey
2004-04-02 18:52 ` Oisín Mac Fhearaí
     [not found]   ` <004501c418e3$994b2ca0$7ce9fea9-UdiLdEXzXlE@public.gmane.org>
2004-04-02 21:01     ` Nate Grey
     [not found]       ` <200404022101.54233-Ulv+RfhiHhw@public.gmane.org>
2004-04-05 18:50         ` Nate Lawson [this message]
     [not found] ` <20040405114306.R22024@root.org>
     [not found]   ` <20040405114306.R22024-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>
2004-04-07 18:52     ` Nate Grey
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2004-05-03 19:09 Nate Grey

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