On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:40:24 +0100, Thomas Mitterfellner wrote: > Hello! > > My laptop (toshiba satellite l770-116, Intel HM65 mainboard) shuts down > frequently when I run CPU intensive tasks. I guess (but I could not find > out for sure) that the temp1_crit setting of for the acpitz-virtual-0 > device may be the culprit. It seems to me that a > pretty low value of 84°C is set here. This is the same value I see when > I do acpi -V (cf. output below). I noticed that sometimes (I haven't > found out under which circumstances) this value is set at 99°C, which > seems more reasonable to me as it corrensponds more closely to the value > shown for the physical devices (100°C), and allows for reasonable usage > of the laptop. > > > I tried adding these values: > > chip "acpitz-virtual-0" > set temp1_crit 99.0 > > To /etc/sensors.d/coretemp, but when doing sensor -s, I get: > > Error: File /etc/sensors.d/coretemp, line 3: Failed to set value > acpitz-virtual-0: At least one "set" statement failed > > So, how can I adjust the temp_crit1 value of the acpitz-virtual-0 device? You can't, thermal zones are read-only at least through the hwmon interface. If anything can be done, this is through ACPI. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors