Turns out the fan on my laptop was going bad, which is why it was spinning so fast. Got it replaced and things are back to normal. Thanks so much for the great help. -Ben On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 14:06:55 -0700, Ben McCann wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. I've attached the full output of sensors-detect in > > case it helps. > > The output is as expected for a laptop. There are two things that could > still be investigated but the chances that it actually brings any > improvement are very thin: > > * There is an unknown SMSC Super-I/O chip detected, with ID 0x1581. > This chip may or may not embed hardware monitoring features, and may > or may not be accessible by the OS. It is possible that this is > where acpitz gets its temperatures, in which case we can't access it > directly with a native driver. Anyway, on a laptop it will be rather > hard to find the chip to read its top marking and identify it. > > * Your SMBus controller is not scanned by sensors-detect. Either > kernel support is missing, or the firmware denied access to the OS. > You need kernel >= 3.6 (or >= 3.2.30, >= 3.4.11 or >= 3.5.4 if using > any of these stable branches.) > > > I was hoping to control the fan speed on my CPU by running fancontrol, > but > > Why? Is the fan running too slow? Too fast? Is the system overheating? > > > it requires that pwmconfig is run first. I was wondering if there's any > way > > to make pwmconfig work on my laptop. I'm not quite sure if software > support > > is missing because it hasn't been written for my model laptop or because > it > > would be impossible to support on my model laptop to due hardware > > limitations. > > Most likely hardware or system firmware limitations, which is common on > laptops. You can see that the system temperatures are exposed though a > (virtual) ACPI device, which indicates that thermal monitoring (and > thus most likely fan control) is in the hands of ACPI. You can't use > the fancontrol daemon on such systems. > > As mentioned before, your best chance is to take a look at the firmware > setup tool, and see if thermal thresholds can be changed there. If so, > this should adjust the fan speed accordingly. Sometimes you can also > change the fan speed profile directly. > > > When I run sensors it seems to be able to read my CPU temperature (I'm > > assuming that's what coretemp-isa-0000 is). > > This is correct. > > > There's a few weird things here > > like I have a quad core CPU, so not sure why it mentions only two cores, > > Which exact CPU model is it? Odds are that this isn't actually a > quad-core, but rather a dual-core with hyper-threading. Digital thermal > sensors are per core, not per logical CPU. > > > and also I'd be extremely surprised if my graphics card is actually > running > > at 511.0°C. > > Indeed. 511 being 0x1FF, the maximum value the driver can report, I > would suppose that the thermal sensor is either missing or damaged. But > this could also be a driver bug or a missing quirk for this specific > model. Either way, this should be reported to the radeon driver > maintainers. > > -- > Jean Delvare > http://jdelvare.nerim.net/wishlist.html > -- about.me/benmccann _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
