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>
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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"
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