On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Toralf Förster wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote at 15:14:31 > > On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Toralf Förster wrote: > ... > > > Do I miss omething ? > > > > Run thinkpad-acpi with fan_control=0 (i.e. disable fan control), and check > > if it gets back to normal. If it does, I will help you track down whatever > > in userspace is playing havok with your fan. > That helped - thx. > Seems that something from KDE/pm-utils is interacting with fan speed Please load the driver like this: modprobe thinkpad-acpi debug=0x8010 fan_control=1 The driver will output debug information about fan use, and also which PID is asking it to modify fan parameters. Please check if you can locate which program has the PID it is complaining about... > > What thinkpad is this? Looks like an IBM or early Lenovo one, when they > > still had thermal sensors (or didn't hide them, whatever)... ACPI should > > not be able to mess with the fan speed on those, unless it is done through > > thinkpad-acpi... > Right, it is a ThinkPad T400 Hmm? I actually didn't expect the T400 to have many sensors. Good to know :) -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
