Re: setting sensor limits fails



Dne, 02. 02. 2010 15:03:01 je Celejar napisal(a):
Has such an occurrence ever been documented?

If you send me your laptop, I'll be glad to document it for you ;)

Seriously, I've messed around with trip points a bit, but never went as far as to let my laptop actually take fire (for obvious reasons). There *might* be an upper hardware critical limit that you aren't allowed to override in software, I don't know. It probably depends on your particular hardware and the vendors particular ACPI implementation. What I do know is you *are* allowed to play around with the thermal module trip points, at least to a certain extent. With all the consequences this entails ...

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