From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 6 00:53:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB33616A4CE for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 00:53:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mbc.edu (mail.mbc.edu [216.57.240.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F5D43D48 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 00:53:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ckleski@mbc.edu) Received: from [192.168.0.101] by mbc.edu (Cipher TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (MDaemon.PRO.v8.0.0f2.R) with ESMTP id md50004856459.msg for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 20:53:41 -0400 From: ckleski@mbc.edu To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 20:53:56 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050505144749.GA22782@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <20050505144749.GA22782@panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505052053.56312.ckleski@mbc.edu> X-SortMonster-MessageSniffer-Message: md50004856459.msg X-SortMonster-MessageSniffer-Rules: tgibseut-MDPv0.53b (SNFv2-3.1i2) No patterns matched. X-SortMonster-MessageSniffer-Result: 0 X-Authenticated-Sender: ckleski@mbc.edu X-Spam-Processed: mail.mbc.edu, Thu, 05 May 2005 20:53:41 -0400 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-Lookup-Warning: HELO/EHLO lookup on 192.168.0.101 does not match 65.202.151.105 X-MDRemoteIP: 65.202.151.105 X-Return-Path: ckleski@mbc.edu X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-MDAV-Processed: mail.mbc.edu, Thu, 05 May 2005 20:53:48 -0400 Subject: Re: Fan/heat management issues on TP41p X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 00:53:59 -0000 Post the result of "sysctl hw.acpi.thermal" That's a good place to start looking for the problem. On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:47 pm, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > I have an IBM ThinkPad T41p running FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE. I haven't > touched anything system-related in a while. > > Two days ago I realized that my fan was on even though the system > was under a very light load. After some time of this, I shut the > lid to suspend it, and the fan was off on resume. That night > the machine crashed, and /var/log/messages showed that it had shut > itself down because it got too hot. I left it up anyway, and the > same thing happened last night. Today, however, the fan suddenly > turned itself back on, and now it's running constantly under no > load. > > Is this likely to be a hardware problem, and I should just bring > it in for service? Or are there software issues I should explore > first? I don't have another OS loaded to see if things are > different. I'm running ACPI, but have no idea what this means as > far as heat management is concerned. > > Thanks. > > Jesse Sheidlower > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"