From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI? Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:57:23 -0500 Message-ID: <200702161257.23684.lenb@kernel.org> References: <45D5EA88.7090300@redhat.com> 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]:39388 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946174AbXBPSHv (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:07:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45D5EA88.7090300@redhat.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Chuck Ebbert Cc: linux-kernel , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org On Friday 16 February 2007 12:31, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Recently my notebook has started shutting down with > these messages in the logs: > > ACPI: Critical trip point > Critical temperature reached (128 C), shutting down. > > But it didn't seem hot at all to me, so I wrote a script to > cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature once a second > and eventually caught this (but no shutdown): > > temperature: 47 C > temperature: 47 C > temperature: 128 C > temperature: 48 C > temperature: 47 C > > Google found several people reporting problems like mine > after installing lm-sensors, and when I looked at the list > of loaded modules I found k8temp and hwmon there. Then I > realized my problems had started after installing a 2.6.19 > kernel that had the new k8temp driver. > > So, could ACPI and the k8temp driver be at odds? Yes. -Len