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Date:      Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:42:20 +0000
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kevin Foo <chflags@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: How to disable acpi thermal?
Message-ID:  <3650D1F1-6B19-42EC-9206-BF4059D46CEC@gid.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0801150020320.26580@sea.ntplx.net>
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Hi,

On 15 Jan 2008, at 05:23, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Kevin Foo wrote:
>
>> You can disable ACPI thermal by adding line below to /boot/ 
>> loader.conf
>>
>> debug.acpi.disable="thermal"
>>
>> I doubt it is safe to do so.
>
> Well, I don't know what else to do.  Everything worked just fine
> under FreeBSD 4.x until upgrading to 7.0.
>
> I was looking for some way to turn it off without rebooting.

Can't help you there, but FWIW we recently had to disable ACPI thermal  
as above on a Core 2 Quad server running 6.2R to suppress continuous  
error messages. It's been running nice and cool for over a month with  
no problems.


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