Re: Thermal trouble on 64-bit

[Thomas Renninger <trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>]

Johan Brannlund wrote:
> Since I didn't get a reply the first time, I thought I'd try to provide
> some more information in the hope that someone will take pity on me.
> The thermal control on my AMD Turion HP 6125 laptop doesn't work quite
> right. 
> The fan often gets "stuck" on whatever speed it had initially and the
> temperature readings also often do not change after a few minutes of
> running. Doing "rmmod thermal; modprobe thermal" makes the temperature
> readings in /etc/acpi/thermal/ start updating again, at least for a few
> minutes when I have to repeat the procedure. The kernel is Ubuntu's
> 2.6.12-6-amd64-k8. Maybe I should mention that I have to boot the
> kernel with "noapic" to get it to run at all.
> 
> Does anyone know what might be causing this?
> 
You could also try to set /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/polling_frequency
to e.g. 5 seconds.
Maybe it helps?

   Thomas


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