On Wed 2008-08-13 17:13:59, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Now, the CPU cores remains on 1.67GHz and fan is unable to cool them properly > > > under heavy load (even if I set "level disengaged" through thinkpad fan control, > > > temperature sensor shows after a while 128 C (probably not real temp, > > > I expect some critical flag => and it properly switch off the > > > system...) > > > > How do you control fans? I could not get anything but -EINVAL from IBM > > ACPI driver :-(. > > thinkpad-acpi will regard 128 and -128 as invalid sensors, because that's > how they are used in some BIOSes (and ECs). We used to bother only with > -128, but Lenovo did something wierd in one of the EC firmwares and I had to > add +128 too. That masks the "help, I am melting" reading. It was simpler than that. I did not pass "fan_control=1" option. (Actually... I do not think that option is needed. If fan control is known to work, it should be just enabled...) Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
