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[Jim Cornette]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:

>On 12/12/03 Jim Cornette did say:
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>>cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/*
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>>gives the below output for my machine.
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>>cooling mode:            active
>><polling disabled>
>>state:                   ok
>>temperature:             44 C
>>critical (S5):           100 C
>>passive:                 97 C: tc1=4 tc2=3 tsp=40 devices=0xcf6b6d80
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>My cooling mode didn't show as active, and the laptop got up to 59 C and
>seems to keep rising. Is there a way to tell it to start cooling?
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>Mike
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I'm past my area of knowledge on this problem also. I remember people 
usig echo and set to activate and deactivate devices by changig the 
logic level.

lsmod had these consecutive modules related to acpi and temperature in 
my setup. I have ac and battery loaded in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.

I hope that you get the fan to start cutting on to cool as needed. It 
works great for me. But I did little to get it functioning properly. The 
kernel developers did the heavy lifting with initscripts and other 
needed utilities.

Did you check bugzilla for similar problems with cooling?

Jim

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