From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Renninger Subject: Re: Thermal trouble on 64-bit Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:13:28 +0200 Message-ID: <42FB5D08.5020406@suse.de> References: <20050807201852.42535.qmail@web50207.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050807201852.42535.qmail-Jk2qPsSbc8CA/QwVtaZbd3CJp6faPEW9@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Johan Brannlund Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf