From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 15 00:18:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD281065674 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:18:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwinlculp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f204.google.com (mail-qy0-f204.google.com [209.85.221.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689768FC14 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:18:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwinlculp@gmail.com) Received: by qyk42 with SMTP id 42so2787198qyk.3 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:18:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=ef11eTSqCazQfwbXOuww+ea6rIDaMgR48ICrB7ni4SM=; b=R1dc48j/EJHxTZrsXpvL3Myrde2v3dZKEudReBRPkdPQJSAC3MpOER8rWdTUk2KrdV c7KgS/s6a168DSfldc1pagT4WBQXZBUKVpsu4L8+HpNV5qkeq/mXzi3T5ncAlICHFY+g 0C9Ve4KT14s4Pr+9CX1utHG6JEa+Bwh7M9I8Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=sioAP1L31HkM4FvFwW3ZeBb0eorOP4NnRl2kUHiNIiEFssippJrPNqi7BsNr+LLqAj oj72Sc7GDPFLzOkDkLIygO/bWQWShmt0KkF+HQmLHbATdNkkpnQoFZEJumURSvasvAZr L2i/rqBKh6VhELuolmjoxE/op1rRd10qC+H+g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.96.149 with SMTP id h21mr1260072qcn.53.1247615689370; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:54:49 -0500 Message-ID: <7affaed60907141654h29f748cdm95532aa83c4ac08d@mail.gmail.com> From: "Edwin L. Culp W." To: freebsd-current Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Acer Laptop overheating with ACPI error that I don't understand. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:18:34 -0000 I am having overheating problems with my Acer Aspire laptop. # uname -a FreeBSD ed.local.net.mx 8.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 #256: Thu Jul 9 07:05:20 CDT 2009 root@ed.local.net.mx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO i386 I've been having this problem for several months and compensating by reducing dev.cpu.0.freq from 1900 to 1200 and 800 in warm offices. The errors I'm seeing in the log files are: +acpi_ec0: EcRead: failed waiting to get data +ACPI Exception: AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] 20090521 evregion-531 +ACPI Error (psparse-0633): Method parse/execution failed [\\_TZ_.THRM._TMP] (Node 0xc4e75960), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE I'm afraid that I don't understand them. Any suggestions appreciated, ed