Re: controlling fanspeed - gnome lenny - acer laptop

hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:41:52 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:

Camaleón wrote:

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I would try first to get an accurate temperature measure for the CPU
(69° C is a bit high, even for a laptop, but not critical -that depends
on the microprocessor type-). Are you able to get these values from
BIOS? Just to make a comparison...


'sensors-detect' gets:
Sorry, no sensors were detected.
Either your sensors are not supported, or they are connected to an I2C
or SMBus adapter that is not supported. See
http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ/Chapter3 for further information.

Did you read the suggested steps?

http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ/Chapter3#Sensors-detectdoesntworkatall


Mmm, does not look good.
You can try to load the latest SystemRescueCD (a livecd) which has the latest version for "lm-sensors" package. If running "sensors-detect" there either works, then... dunno :-/

BIOS shows nothing of either fan or temperature.

Ouch :-(

The only temperature indicators are
hugo@debian:~$ cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp 66000
hugo@debian:~$ cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp 50000

It is not clear what these refer to.

Thermal zones are "points" defined to "ring the bell" (getting an alarm and provide an event → i.e., activating or speeding up the fan) to avoid overheating, but provided that your ACPI detection is not very accurate, I won't take that values very seriously.

'fancontrol' is shown as part of the package lm-sensors.

Yes :-(

Lenny has only 2.6.26 kernel. I can try knoppix 6.2.1 which has a 2.6.32 kernel and see if it has a later lm-sensors.

Lenny has version 3.0.2 and sid has 3.1.2, don't know if that will make much difference.


no sensors-detect in knoppix 6.2.1
I'll see if there is a forum for lm-sensors


But look at this:

hugo@debian:~$ sensors -v
sensors version 3.0.2 with libsensors version 3.0.2
hugo@debian:~$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +62.0°C (crit = +100.0°C)
temp2: +46.0°C (crit = +70.0°C)

Hugo


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