OK, thanks for that clarification. Do you have a tip on how I could go about to set it through ACPI? Who (which program/demon/whatever) is responsible for creating this virtual device and its settings? On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
