Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-27 Thread Colin Leroy
On 27 Oct 2004 at 18h10, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi, > > > OK; I'll look into that. We do already have three different > > > setups: > > > > > > - iBook: fans for CPU and GPU each > > > - PB 12": one main exhaust fan > > > - PB 17": two separate exhaust fans > > > > No, iBook only has one fan. >

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-27 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:44:34PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > OK; I'll look into that. We do already have three different setups: > > > > > > - iBook: fans for CPU and GPU each > > > - PB 12": one main exhaust fan > > > - PB 17": two separate exhaust fans > > > > No, iBook only has one fan

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > OK; I'll look into that. We do already have three different setups: > > > > - iBook: fans for CPU and GPU each > > - PB 12": one main exhaust fan > > - PB 17": two separate exhaust fans > > No, iBook only has one fan. My bad. Two sensible sensors, one fan. So what else does have _two_ fans?

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-27 Thread Colin Leroy
On 27 Oct 2004 at 12h10, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi, > OK; I'll look into that. We do already have three different setups: > > - iBook: fans for CPU and GPU each > - PB 12": one main exhaust fan > - PB 17": two separate exhaust fans No, iBook only has one fan. -- Colin Recursion: see Recursi

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > I've never seen the remote2 temp reach anything beyond 50 IIRC. No > > danger of shutting down there. I've in fact reduced both CPU and 'GPU' > > limit to 50 in my version of the module. Even honoring your intention > > to keep the code stupid :-) , I think we need to check OF data on > > sen

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-27 Thread Colin Leroy
On 27 Oct 2004 at 09h10, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi, > I've tried setting the fan speed to anything around 60 to 90, limit > to 45 deg. while banging on the X server and the fan switches to full > speed every couple of minutes. With not doing a lot beyond editing or > reading mail, that should ne

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > I'd like to keep it simple stupid. If you want a stepping, you'll end up > > with a lot of code to handle hysteresis - which is, don't slow down the > > fan as soon as the temp is going under one limit (or the other way) or > > your fan will change speed every two seconds. Which is very > > ann

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-26 Thread Georg C. Kaindl
hi, > I think I'll send this. It doesn't add any parameter, but makes the fan > speed change gradual (from specified fan speed, which is now 64 by > default, to 255, by increments of (255-fan_speed) / 7. yes, from my point of view this would also be a good improvement. Anyways, I'd still prefer

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-26 Thread Mike Power
Georg C. Kaindl wrote: hi, As long as you make sure there's some code to switch the fans to full speed at some threshold you should be safe. The module needs some more tweaking anyway - it's written for iBook where there's a CPU and GPU fan but the PowerBook seems to have just

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-26 Thread Colin Leroy
On 26 Oct 2004 at 21h10, Colin Leroy wrote: Hi, > I'll see if I can adapt this to have proper hysteresis without too > much hassles, and if I can, will put it in. I think I'll send this. It doesn't add any parameter, but makes the fan speed change gradual (from specified fan speed, which is now

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-26 Thread Colin Leroy
On 26 Oct 2004 at 19h10, Georg C. Kaindl wrote: Hi, > therefore I've slightly modified it to make it more configurable > (patch against 2.6.9 attached) I'll see if I can adapt this to have proper hysteresis without too much hassles, and if I can, will put it in. -- Colin http://dudusdl.sf.ne

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-26 Thread Colin Leroy
On 26 Oct 2004 at 18h10, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi, > I've never seen the remote2 temp reach anything beyond 50 IIRC. No > danger of shutting down there. I've in fact reduced both CPU and 'GPU' > limit to 50 in my version of the module. Even honoring your intention > to keep the code stupid :-)

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-26 Thread Georg C. Kaindl
hi, > I'd like to keep it simple stupid. If you want a stepping, you'll end up > with a lot of code to handle hysteresis - which is, don't slow down the > fan as soon as the temp is going under one limit (or the other way) or > your fan will change speed every two seconds. Which is very > annoying

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > As long as you make sure there's some code to switch the fans to > > > full speed at some threshold you should be safe. The module needs > > > some more tweaking anyway - it's written for iBook where there's a > > > CPU and GPU fan but the PowerBook seems to have just two exhaust > > > fans,

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-26 Thread Colin Leroy
On 26 Oct 2004 at 10h53, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi, > The module simply switches the fan to specified_speed when the > threshold is exceeded, and goes full tilt when the threshold is > exceeded by more than 8 K. 8 degrees Celsius :) -- Colin

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-26 Thread Colin Leroy
On 26 Oct 2004 at 15h10, Georg C. Kaindl wrote: Hi, > > As long as you make sure there's some code to switch the fans to > > full speed at some threshold you should be safe. The module needs > > some more tweaking anyway - it's written for iBook where there's a > > CPU and GPU fan but the PowerB

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-26 Thread Georg C. Kaindl
hi, > As long as you make sure there's some code to switch the fans to full > speed at some threshold you should be safe. The module needs some more > tweaking anyway - it's written for iBook where there's a CPU and GPU fan > but the PowerBook seems to have just two exhaust fans, and the sensors >

Re: powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I've got a question about the fan behaviour on powerbooks using the > therm_adt7467 module: I've noticed that the fan seems the start correctly > (when the cpu temperature reaches the given limit), however, it starts to > spin pretty quickly, causing a lot of noise. That's adjustable via /sys/de

powerbook fan behaviour, therm_adt7467

2004-10-25 Thread Georg C. Kaindl
hi, I've got a question about the fan behaviour on powerbooks using the therm_adt7467 module: I've noticed that the fan seems the start correctly (when the cpu temperature reaches the given limit), however, it starts to spin pretty quickly, causing a lot of noise. Under MacOS X, the fan spins