Lan Barnes wrote:
On Sat, March 31, 2007 3:07 pm, Gus Wirth wrote:
$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
Temp up to 68 C and no fan. Boo hoo
Maybe you don't know this, maybe you do:
Power and heat management does not always work properly on all laptops
under Linux. Whether or not this is true depends on your particular
brand and model. I specifically chose my Asus laptop because my research
found that it was well supported by Linux.
The goal of the ACPI4Linux project is to get ACPI to work at least as
well under Linux as it does under Windows. Sony and IBM are fairly well
supported out-of-the-box by the kernel. As are many Asus models,
although usually with an additional module (e.g. asus-laptop). Other
brands may have similar add-on modules available. If you have a
non-brand laptop, you may need to track down who actually made the
motherboard and then get the appropriate ACPI module/driver, or kernel
patch for it.
ACPI4Linux is moving toward more generic support for laptops (in fact
they are now discussing changing the project name as a reflection of the
new direction) where most laptops are supported by kernel modules
directly, with only model-specific features/quirks requiring additional
out-of-the-kernel drivers.
Bottom line: your laptop's hardware may be running unsupervised except
for the minimal BIOS support.
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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