Re: Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI?

Len Brown
2007-02-16T18:07:51Z

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