Re: Can not get fan control going in wheezy. Any help appreciated
Hi, I have solved the problem. At least on my laptop in the last week. As far as I can tell for that particular model of HP laptop has no way for the user to be able to control the fan. When I tried to be able to control the fan under windows Vista I downloaded the speedfan utility and it couldn't detect any drivers to control the fan either but did provide a quick way see graphs of the various temperature sensors in the laptop. After that I downloaded a cpu burn test utility for windows and when run it started to heat up the laptop suddenly the fan started up. Booting back to debian I installed a CPU burn test utility from the repositories. I can't remember the name, I don't have the laptop with me at the moment. When I ran that tool twice in parallel (one for each core) the fan also spontaneously started running. Now the fan runs fine. It generally runs all the time at a low speed with Debian starts up. I haven't done anything excessive to push it faster since running the burn tests. The theory I have come to about what is happening is that the fan can not be user controlled and runs automatically. I think maybe it was stuck with dirt and wouldn't run at low speeds. When stressed with the burn test utilities the fan, given more power started up and cleared out any dirt. Not exactly a scientific theory but the best I can come up that explains the behaviour. If you happen to run the same tests let me know if you have the same results. I have reported the problem as a bug to the lm-sensors package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=701518 This weekend I will post a note with my theory and probably another post to debian-users to see if anyone can confirm that it is viable idea. Regards, Tim. On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Tim Long timw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have just updated my laptop (HP Compaq 6730s) to Wheezy and I am diagnosing my first problem. The fan control deamon refuses to run and I think lm-sensors is unable to find/configure the fan control system. I suspect it a bug with the lm-sensors package. After the install I get the following message on boot up: === [warn] Not starting fancontrol; run pwmconfig first. ... (warning). === Running pwmconfig I get the following error message: === /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed === Running the 'sensors' command I turn up the following: === acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1:+53.0°C (crit = +110.0°C) temp2:+49.0°C (crit = +256.0°C) temp3:+49.0°C (crit = +112.0°C) temp4:+51.0°C (crit = +105.0°C) temp5:+30.6°C (crit = +112.0°C) temp6:+50.0°C (crit = +110.0°C) coretemp-isa- Adapter: ISA adapter Core 0: +45.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 1: +49.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) === Googling around for the problem I think the problem is that the sensors command is not listing any fan control devices. Can anyone confirm that this is the problem? I did run sensor-detect to find any chipset specific modules and it added 'coretemp' to /etc/modules but I think detected no chipset specific modules. What is interesting is that it found an unknown Super I/O chip: === Some Super I/O chips contain embedded sensors. We have to write to standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe. Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): y Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... No Trying family `SMSC'... Yes Found unknown chip with ID 0x4501 Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'... No Trying family `ITE'... No ... === I think that the problem is that the kernel can not figure out how to control the fan. Is this the correct diagnosis or have I done a misdiagnosis? In my google searches I found references to control files like /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/device/fan1_input which don't exist on my system. Any help would be appropriated. I think I need to report a bug with the lm-sensors package. Tim.
Re: Can not get fan control going in wheezy. Any help appreciated
On Jo, 29 nov 12, 14:08:33, Tim Long wrote: I think that the problem is that the kernel can not figure out how to control the fan. Is this the correct diagnosis or have I done a misdiagnosis? In my google searches I found references to control files like /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/device/fan1_input which don't exist on my system. Could you try with the kernel from Squeeze? If it works try using snapshot.debian.org to find out which kernel version introduced the regression and file a bug against the kernel. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Can not get fan control going in wheezy. Any help appreciated
Hi all, I have just updated my laptop (HP Compaq 6730s) to Wheezy and I am diagnosing my first problem. The fan control deamon refuses to run and I think lm-sensors is unable to find/configure the fan control system. I suspect it a bug with the lm-sensors package. After the install I get the following message on boot up: === [warn] Not starting fancontrol; run pwmconfig first. ... (warning). === Running pwmconfig I get the following error message: === /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed === Running the 'sensors' command I turn up the following: === acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1:+53.0°C (crit = +110.0°C) temp2:+49.0°C (crit = +256.0°C) temp3:+49.0°C (crit = +112.0°C) temp4:+51.0°C (crit = +105.0°C) temp5:+30.6°C (crit = +112.0°C) temp6:+50.0°C (crit = +110.0°C) coretemp-isa- Adapter: ISA adapter Core 0: +45.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 1: +49.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) === Googling around for the problem I think the problem is that the sensors command is not listing any fan control devices. Can anyone confirm that this is the problem? I did run sensor-detect to find any chipset specific modules and it added 'coretemp' to /etc/modules but I think detected no chipset specific modules. What is interesting is that it found an unknown Super I/O chip: === Some Super I/O chips contain embedded sensors. We have to write to standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe. Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): y Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... No Trying family `SMSC'... Yes Found unknown chip with ID 0x4501 Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'... No Trying family `ITE'... No ... === I think that the problem is that the kernel can not figure out how to control the fan. Is this the correct diagnosis or have I done a misdiagnosis? In my google searches I found references to control files like /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/device/fan1_input which don't exist on my system. Any help would be appropriated. I think I need to report a bug with the lm-sensors package. Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cak1vlveybhfnajhymoth_ur9x0hrmv1yznas+ppjs8dx0gd...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Any help appreciated
I hope it would be helpfull if someone would be so kind to build a resque disk for me which contains a kernel including nfs and the network driver for my card (smc8000, which needs wd.c). OK, I'm willing to do build a kernel for you. Or I can give you an account on my machine, so that you can build it your self. I don't think I have the time to build a full resque disk though (I'm going off to a conference on wednesday, and still need to prepare quite a lot of stuff). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any help appreciated
Hello, this is my 4-th try to solve my problem. If somebody is interested in my concrete problem I can post my further letters under the subjects Installation failure, Once more: Installation failure and Instalation problems, anyway with private mail. I don't want to bother the readers of this list with this question which seems to be not so frequently that somebody is able to answer on spot. I hope it would be helpfull if someone would be so kind to build a resque disk for me which contains a kernel including nfs and the network driver for my card (smc8000, which needs wd.c). I would be very grateful if somebody would do this job which could possibly solve my problem, because I'm not able to do that. I don't need any CD-ROM driver or SCSI devices. If somebody sees an other solution please tell me. I very urgently need help. Thanks for any help which brings me one step nearer a running Debian system Andreas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
