From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 4 11:41:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E4616A401 for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 11:41:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from elfshadow@physics.upatras.gr) Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B1B513C43E for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 11:41:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from elfshadow@physics.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 22051 invoked from network); 4 May 2007 11:41:33 -0000 Received: from pythagoras.physics.upatras.gr (150.140.159.71) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 4 May 2007 11:41:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 16043 invoked by uid 1189); 4 May 2007 11:40:23 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 14:40:23 +0300 From: Laganakos Vassilis To: Nate Lawson Message-ID: <20070504114023.GA16017@pythagoras.physics.upatras.gr> References: <20070503210527.GA5660@pythagoras.physics.upatras.gr> <463A5729.5010908@root.org> <20070503220929.GA6324@pythagoras.physics.upatras.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070503220929.GA6324@pythagoras.physics.upatras.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Burning Hot ASUS-6V6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 11:41:35 -0000 On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:09:29AM +0300, Laganakos Vassilis wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:42:01PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > > Laganakos Vassilis wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a problem with my laptop, it gets very hot (~70C) after operating > > > for a while. I use FreeBSD-6-Stable, and it has this problem for a long > > > time now. Actually I think it always had it, but I'm fed up with this. > > > > > > I tried various things I read in the mailing list, but I don;t know many > > > things about how acpi handles the fans to control the temperature of the > > > cpu, etc. > > > > Try booting with acpi disabled. > > > > Ok I'll try that, but I don't know how to tell the temperature aside > from the hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature > > > > My sysctl hw.thermal after the changes in hw.thermal.tz0._PSV and > > > hw.thermal.user_override. > > > > > > hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0 > > > hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10 > > > hw.acpi.thermal.user_override: 1 > > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 73.0C > > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1 > > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.passive_cooling: 0 > > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0 > > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: 90.0C > > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1 > > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 127.0C > > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 > > > > > > It seems that the device dowes not support setting passive cooling: > > > > > > celeborn# sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.passive_cooling=1 > > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.passive_cooling: 0 > > > sysctl: hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.passive_cooling: Operation not supported by device > > > > > > and it neither supports active: > > > > > > celeborn# sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active=1 > > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1 -> -1 > > > > > > Kernel is already loaded with acpi.ko and asus_acpi.ko modules. > > > > > > Any clues how to tackle this? I was thinking if I could set the cpu to > > > run at a lower frequency, when I'm not doing something "heavy" might > > > help. > > > > Load the cpufreq driver at boot, add this to /boot/loader.conf: > > cpufreq_load="YES" > > > > Then run powerd in /etc/rc.conf: > > powerd_enable="YES" > > > > -- > I set these out and reading how to use them. > > Thank you very much! I hope that the temperature goes down, because I > feel that I'm frying my CPU (and hands)! Although ASUS-V6800V in known > about the very high temperatures it reaches... > So there is no way to do anything using the acpi driver in > FreeBSD-6-Stable? > > Kind regards, > > Vassilis > > > Nate > > -- > I meant that if there is any other way to control the fans. I tried both of the solutions you proposed, and I think that the second one suits me better. The temperature in the begining is kept around 45C, and after I while around 60C. So it is 10 degrees Celcius lower that previous. Thank you very much! Kind regards, Vassilis --