Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 5 May 2005 20:53:56 +0000
From:      ckleski@mbc.edu
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fan/heat management issues on TP41p
Message-ID:  <200505052053.56312.ckleski@mbc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050505144749.GA22782@panix.com>
References:  <20050505144749.GA22782@panix.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Post the result of "sysctl hw.acpi.thermal"   That's a good place to start 
looking for the problem.

On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:47 pm, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> I have an IBM ThinkPad T41p running FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE. I haven't
> touched anything system-related in a while.
>
> Two days ago I realized that my fan was on even though the system
> was under a very light load. After some time of this, I shut the
> lid to suspend it, and the fan was off on resume. That night
> the machine crashed, and /var/log/messages showed that it had shut
> itself down because it got too hot. I left it up anyway, and the
> same thing happened last night. Today, however, the fan suddenly
> turned itself back on, and now it's running constantly under no
> load.
>
> Is this likely to be a hardware problem, and I should just bring
> it in for service? Or are there software issues I should explore
> first? I don't have another OS loaded to see if things are
> different. I'm running ACPI, but have no idea what this means as
> far as heat management is concerned.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200505052053.56312.ckleski>