annoying fan problem

annoying fan problem

[Janosch Machowinski]

Hey folks,
I got an annoying problem with my fan, when I boot the system,
it is allways on, with full speed. If I start compiling some stuff,
or use BurnP6 to get the CPU over 65 degrees, the fan starts
to behave right and goes into passive mode on cooldown.
The notebook is an Asus M68Ne and has the latest bios installed.
cat trip_points shows :
critical (S5):           105 C
passive:                 100 C: tc1=2 tc2=10 tsp=100 devices=0xc14d5ea0

cat cooling_mode
<setting not supported>
cooling mode:   passive

Any ideas ?
Thanks
      Janosch

Re: annoying fan problem

[Thomas Renninger]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 01:04, Janosch Machowinski wrote:
> Hey folks,
> I got an annoying problem with my fan, when I boot the system,
> it is allways on, with full speed. If I start compiling some stuff,
> or use BurnP6 to get the CPU over 65 degrees, the fan starts
> to behave right and goes into passive mode on cooldown.
> The notebook is an Asus M68Ne and has the latest bios installed.
> cat trip_points shows :
> critical (S5):           105 C
> passive:                 100 C: tc1=2 tc2=10 tsp=100 devices=0xc14d5ea0
> 
> cat cooling_mode
> <setting not supported>
> cooling mode:   passive
> 
There are  more people out there with different kind of fan problems.

1. Does grep _WDG /proc/acpi/dsdt matches?
2. Is this only when resuming from a suspend?
3. Do you get semaphore/mutex errors in the latest 2.6.16-rc3 or higher
   kernels?

Best is you grep bugzilla.kernel.org for fan problems assigned to the ACPI
component. Search for a related one and add your info (dmesg and acpidmp output
of a recent kernel) or open a new one if you think it's unrelated. Please CC me.

       Thomas