From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: Help with fan on fujitsu siemens Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:02:43 -0500 Message-ID: <200702161202.43455.lenb@kernel.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:55986 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964989AbXBPREC (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:04:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Andras Lorincz Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Friday 16 February 2007 02:46, Andras Lorincz wrote: > and the output of cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/* is: > > cooling mode: active > polling frequency: 30 seconds > state: ok > temperature: 49 C > critical (S5): 105 C > passive: 79 C: tc1=3 tc2=1 tsp=80 > devices=0xf7e9c720 > active[0]: 65 C: devices=0xc17e4d9c > active[1]: 55 C: devices=0xc17e4d38 > > Some remarks: > > - the polling frequency is not set by default so I > run a script on startup which sets the polling > frequency to 30 secs if you don't set polling frequency it is 0? Does anything not work in that case? That is the ideal case -- as polling frequency 0 means that the system is event-driven. If you need to enable polling b/c something isn't working, 3 seconds may be more prudent than 30 seconds. > - the state reported by > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/state changes correctly > according to changing temperatures but it is not in > accordance with the real state of the cooler. Do you have /proc/acpi/fan/*/* files? What do they say? -Len