From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 23:16:05 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9219716A4CE; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:16:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out006.verizon.net (out006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2EEA43D41; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:16:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from RabbitsDen ([70.21.161.195]) by out006.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20050122231604.OCSJ7873.out006.verizon.net@RabbitsDen>; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:16:04 -0600 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-5 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:15:19 -0500 Message-Id: <1106435719.659.6.camel@RabbitsDen> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [70.21.161.195] at Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:16:04 -0600 cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Notebook fan stuck on? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:16:05 -0000 On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 20:44 +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > I'm not sure when this began, but I noticed recently that, once my > notebook's fan gets turned on due to the temperature rising, it seems > never to get turned off. I'm not sure how to begin debugging this -- in > particular, how to decide if it's because the notebook isn't cooling > properly (perhaps due to ACPI or hardware?) or if we're failing to turn it > back down against once it is cooled (perhaps also due to ACPI?). > Regardless, it actually has the effect of generating quite a bit more > noise, and using moderately more battery, so any pointers on where to > start looking for helpful. > > Thanks, > > Robert N M Watson > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" What does sysctl hw.acpi.thermal say? Starting point would be looking at whether sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tzN.temperature changes with time. (for all N your notebook provided). -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)