Hi, Could you send acpidump command output? Regards. Konstantin. >-----Original Message----- >From: Salatiel Filho [mailto:salatiel.filho@xxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:19 AM >To: Karasyov, Konstantin A >Cc: Matthew Brett; linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: PROBLEM: CPU fan shuts down on load of fan.ko in kernel 2.6.18 >and later > >On 1/9/07, Karasyov, Konstantin A <konstantin.a.karasyov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Matthew, >> >> Could you please perform the following testing: > > > >Well , i tried to perform this steps in my machine since i think my >fans are not working in linux. Well , for my surprise , i have >absolutely nothing in > ># ls -lh /proc/acpi/fan/ >total 0 > > > >> >> 1. boot, make sure the fan doesn't spin. >> >> 2. do 'cat /proc/acpi/thermal/*/*', check the following: >> - the 'state' field shows 'active[<smthng>]' >> (if not - perform some CPU-intensive task); >> - fan still doesn't spin, > >#cat /proc/acpi/thermal/*/* >cat: /proc/acpi/thermal/*/*: No such file or directory > >#cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/* ><setting not supported> >cooling mode: critical ><polling disabled> >state: ok >temperature: 60 C >critical (S5): 99 C ><setting not supported> >cooling mode: critical ><polling disabled> >state: ok >temperature: 27 C >critical (S5): 105 C > > > > >> >> 3. do 'cat /proc/acpi/fan/*/state', check the following: >> - the 'status' field shows 'on' (at least one of them); >> - fan still doesn't spin, >> > ># cat /proc/acpi/fan/*/state >cat: /proc/acpi/fan/*/state: No such file or directory > > > > >> 4a. do consequently (as root) the following: >> - 'echo 3 > /proc/acpi/fan/*/state' >> - 'echo 0 > /proc/acpi/fan/*/state' >> (the fan should be that one, which shown 'on' in step 3) >> >> 4b. (if step 3 failed) do (as root) 'echo 0 > /proc/acpi/fan/*/state' >> consequently for each fan device under /proc/acpi/fan/, check the >> following: >> - fans start spinning; >> - fans' states are correct ('cat /proc/acpi/fan/*/state' >> command) >> >> 5. check if the fan(s) start spinning. >> >> Please, get back to me with the results, test flow description and >> commands' outputs. >> >> Also, you could try the patches from bugs ##7122, 7570 for 2.6.20-rc3 to >> see if it help. >> > >any ideas why i have no /proc/acpi/fan/*? > >Notebook HP Pavillion dv8230us > >-- >[]'s >Salatiel > >"O maior prazer do inteligente é bancar o idiota > diante de um idiota que banca o inteligente". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
