Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo laptop issues

["Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@comcast.net>]

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My dmesg has this:

ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (39 C)

and then there's

acpitool- a Linux ACPI client, allowing you to query or set ACPI values

Running 'acpitool -t' returns:
   Thermal zone 1 : ok, 61 C
   Trip points :
   -------------
   critical (S5):           100 C

--- Vladimir

on 07/21/2008 03:07 PM list-catcher said the following:
>> The most important of the problems involves the fan.  The laptop gets a
>> whole lot hotter using linux while compiling than it did using vista while
>> compiling which implies that there is some fan control missing from my
>> install.  What sort of ebuilds/apps should I be looking at to solve the
>> problem?
> 
> 
> After further investigation of the above with the helpful hint of checking
> out 'fancontrol' apparently my laptop contains no pwm capable chips.  Now
> I suspect this is highly unlikely as the fan speed does indeed change
> under vista.  I wonder then if it's just not detecting the chip.  Anyone
> know of a utility or way to find my chip?
> 
> 

-- 
Vladimir G. Ivanovic



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