From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nate Lawson Subject: Re: Acer Aspire 1601LC tempertature & ACPI Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20040405114950.E22024@root.org> References: <200404021654.00101.nate@paranoici.org> <004501c418e3$994b2ca0$7ce9fea9@SHERKA> <200404022101.54233@asda> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200404022101.54233-Ulv+RfhiHhw@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Nate Grey Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Nate Grey wrote: > On Friday 02 April 2004 18:52, Ois=EDn Mac Fheara=ED wrote: > > With my Acer Aspire 1705SMi, thermal zone would report temperature as 2= 55C > > repeatedly during bootup and reboot. > > I disabled the thermal zone module, as the BIOS will supposedly shut do= wn > > the laptop if the temperature is really too high. > > > > Ois=EDn > > 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 c= heck? 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click