On Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:38, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:19, Luming Yu wrote: > > On 1/19/07, emisca <emisca.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The TZ4 thermal zone on all the hp compaq line nx**** and nc**** is > > > not a temperature but the fan speed. You can see this information on > > > the web and on hp forums. > > > > Where is the hp forums. > > I don't work on laptops, so I can't confirm this, but Google found > this (from "tz4 thermal zone fan speed hp"): > > http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1052925 Someone also sent me this, which I'll include in case it helps anybody else. Obviously, scripts like the one mentioned below are stop-gaps that shouldn't be necessary. But the script might have useful hints about how to fix the kernel so the script would no longer be needed. > Take a look at this: > http://daniel.graziotin.net/2006/12/02/hp-nx6325-and-friends-thermal-problems-solved this fixed my thermal problem. > And make sure you unload the psmouse module during halt/reboot > otherwise you have problemes when you start your notebook again. > (symptom's: very long BIOS-Boot, ACPI-problems (thermal)..) - 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