On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I have a ThinkPad T41p that has had a variety of fan problems > > for some time. After my most recent repair things seemed to be > > working fine, but the other day I was compiling some ports and > > the machine just shut down in the middle; after some > > experimentation it seemed clear that it was just overheating > > under load and shutting itself off. (Looking at the > > temperature sysctl showed that it was getting increasingly hot > > until it crashed.) > > > > How can I monitor what is happening? Are there any ways I can > > find out from FreeBSD if the fan is even on, or how it thinks > > it is working? "systcl -a | grep fan" didn't return anything. > > There are quite a few programs that can tell you CPU temperature and fan > speed, like mbmon and conky, both in /usr/ports/sysutils. You could > compare these parameters against data for the fan and cooler in order to > ascertain whether anything is wrong with the fan.
Unfortunately these don't work, or rather they don't report the fan speed. (In conky, for example, if I add lines to the config file to report the CPU temp, fan speed, and fan state, I only get the CPU temp, with the other lines empty.) > > Can I control the fan? > > I don't know. In any case, I would not try to control fan speed if the > problem is that the fan is insufficient or out of order. Right; my intention wasn't to control the fan manually for regular use, but rather to try to turn the fan on high so that I can see if there is, in fact, a whooshing sound that would indicate the fan has been turned on high. I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE, by the way; I acknowledge that there is the acpi_ibm.ko thing under 6.x, and perhaps this would be helpful. However I can't even think about upgrading because compiling almost anything causes the computer to crash from overheating :-/ Jesse Sheidlower _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
