From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 19:43:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0701065670 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:43:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from top_gun_canada@yahoo.com) Received: from web30904.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30904.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 038998FC22 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:43:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from top_gun_canada@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 48138 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Mar 2008 19:43:21 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=h9yK0v4GQtL5a6m9T6O7+0TECIvqHrA9m3joQKWbtiKl9I9L4CrWr5QC1Tk3VE6ii4R7wHroYsOq9nIpZNc/bnAXERv8YH5yiNIqpBqOrUwxlBP9SyW90Q4UBO9cCl5eDC24hVfLY91FMM1ekFPWh5A4HCWasjbkI9W9dXSsnVk=; X-YMail-OSG: 7xusm0QVM1kP60C4Sc_27SmYwvrc4xqe4Dn6nBR.ViLHVzeJ.my8ASGVzpOzw3xT4iPdh3ERB92UqArepDp1CiRrLl73CCDDCWck4jh3XkxxmiOYKM0- Received: from [70.74.28.140] by web30904.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:43:21 PDT Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:43:21 -0700 (PDT) From: B J To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <279276.48036.qm@web30904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: ACPI Problem: "acpi_tz0:_TMP value is absurd" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:43:22 -0000 I located a file for upgrading the BIOS for my Compaq machine but it requires Windows to install it. I deleted the Windows that came with the machine several months ago, so, for now, that option is out. I created a file with the following commands: sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.user_override=1 sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate=1800 sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.user_override=0 and run it right after logging in as root using: source xxxx where xxxx is the file name. The message: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd, ignored (-269.8C) still appears, but not as often. I could, of course, adjust it later if temperature might become a problem but, for now, the machine isn't on long enough for that to be a concern. It still doesn't fix the problem of an incorrect temperature, but at least I can read my monitor without it being cluttered with those messages. BMJ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs