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From: hugo vanwoerkom on 28 Jul 2010 11:00 hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:19:02 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: >> >>> These are my first days with running Lenny on an Acer Aspire 3613WLCi >>> and I see temps like: TZS0 70 TZS1 52 but I can't seem to find a utility >>> to control the fan: I would like to turn in on and see if those temps >>> change. >> >> I think "lm-sensors" includes a "fancontrol" package, but be careful >> if you want to manually set the fan speed, because this parameter >> should be automatically adjusted by ACPI and cpufreqd. >> >> Ideally, running "acpi -V" will display more info about your thermal >> zones and current temperature trip points. >> > > lm-sensors does not work on this laptop, 'sensors-detect' does not > detect any sensors. > > 'acpi -v' reads; > Battery 0: Charging, 0%, charging at zero rate - will never fully > charge., design capacity 4400 mAh > AC Adapter 0: on-line > Thermal 0: ok, 53.0 degrees C > Thermal 1: ok, 69.0 degrees C > Cooling 0: Processor 1 of 7 > > But I notice that /etc/rc2.d has 'S20fancontrol', I wonder what that > does. I would just like to turn the fan on, since I never hear it. That is part of lm-sensors, won't work... :-( Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i2pghs$7ai$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: Camaleón on 28 Jul 2010 11:20 On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:40:23 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> I think "lm-sensors" includes a "fancontrol" package, but be careful if >> you want to manually set the fan speed, because this parameter should >> be automatically adjusted by ACPI and cpufreqd. >> >> Ideally, running "acpi -V" will display more info about your thermal >> zones and current temperature trip points. >> >> > lm-sensors does not work on this laptop, 'sensors-detect' does not > detect any sensors. Usually, "sensors-detect" gives you some tips for loading the right modules for your board and once you load them, starts working. > 'acpi -v' reads; > Battery 0: Charging, 0%, charging at zero rate - will never fully > charge., design capacity 4400 mAh > AC Adapter 0: on-line > Thermal 0: ok, 53.0 degrees C > Thermal 1: ok, 69.0 degrees C > Cooling 0: Processor 1 of 7 > > But I notice that /etc/rc2.d has 'S20fancontrol', I wonder what that > does. I would just like to turn the fan on, since I never hear it. Maybe that "fancontrol" is the service provided by lm-sensors, but not sure :-? I would try first to get an accurate temperature measure for the CPU (69° C is a bit high, even for a laptop, but not critical -that depends on the microprocessor type-). Are you able to get these values from BIOS? Just to make a comparison... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.07.28.15.14.42(a)gmail.com
From: hugo vanwoerkom on 28 Jul 2010 11:50 Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:40:23 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Camaleón wrote: > >>> I think "lm-sensors" includes a "fancontrol" package, but be careful if >>> you want to manually set the fan speed, because this parameter should >>> be automatically adjusted by ACPI and cpufreqd. >>> >>> Ideally, running "acpi -V" will display more info about your thermal >>> zones and current temperature trip points. >>> >>> >> lm-sensors does not work on this laptop, 'sensors-detect' does not >> detect any sensors. > > Usually, "sensors-detect" gives you some tips for loading the right > modules for your board and once you load them, starts working. > >> 'acpi -v' reads; >> Battery 0: Charging, 0%, charging at zero rate - will never fully >> charge., design capacity 4400 mAh >> AC Adapter 0: on-line >> Thermal 0: ok, 53.0 degrees C >> Thermal 1: ok, 69.0 degrees C >> Cooling 0: Processor 1 of 7 >> >> But I notice that /etc/rc2.d has 'S20fancontrol', I wonder what that >> does. I would just like to turn the fan on, since I never hear it. > > Maybe that "fancontrol" is the service provided by lm-sensors, but not > sure :-? > > I would try first to get an accurate temperature measure for the CPU (69° > C is a bit high, even for a laptop, but not critical -that depends on the > microprocessor type-). Are you able to get these values from BIOS? Just > to make a comparison... > 'sensors-detect' gets: Sorry, no sensors were detected. Either your sensors are not supported, or they are connected to an I2C or SMBus adapter that is not supported. See http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ/Chapter3 for further information. BIOS shows nothing of either fan or temperature. The only temperature indicators are hugo(a)debian:~$ cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp 66000 hugo(a)debian:~$ cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp 50000 It is not clear what these refer to. 'fancontrol' is shown as part of the package lm-sensors. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i2pj43$i04$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: Camaleón on 28 Jul 2010 13:10 On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:41:52 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I would try first to get an accurate temperature measure for the CPU >> (69° C is a bit high, even for a laptop, but not critical -that depends >> on the microprocessor type-). Are you able to get these values from >> BIOS? Just to make a comparison... >> >> > 'sensors-detect' gets: > Sorry, no sensors were detected. > Either your sensors are not supported, or they are connected to an I2C > or SMBus adapter that is not supported. See > http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ/Chapter3 for further information. Did you read the suggested steps? http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ/Chapter3#Sensors-detectdoesntworkatall Mmm, does not look good. You can try to load the latest SystemRescueCD (a livecd) which has the latest version for "lm-sensors" package. If running "sensors-detect" there either works, then... dunno :-/ > BIOS shows nothing of either fan or temperature. Ouch :-( > The only temperature indicators are > hugo(a)debian:~$ cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp 66000 > hugo(a)debian:~$ cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp 50000 > > It is not clear what these refer to. Thermal zones are "points" defined to "ring the bell" (getting an alarm and provide an event → i.e., activating or speeding up the fan) to avoid overheating, but provided that your ACPI detection is not very accurate, I won't take that values very seriously. > 'fancontrol' is shown as part of the package lm-sensors. Yes :-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.07.28.16.59.37(a)gmail.com
From: hugo vanwoerkom on 28 Jul 2010 14:10
Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:41:52 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> I would try first to get an accurate temperature measure for the CPU >>> (69° C is a bit high, even for a laptop, but not critical -that depends >>> on the microprocessor type-). Are you able to get these values from >>> BIOS? Just to make a comparison... >>> >>> >> 'sensors-detect' gets: >> Sorry, no sensors were detected. >> Either your sensors are not supported, or they are connected to an I2C >> or SMBus adapter that is not supported. See >> http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ/Chapter3 for further information. > > Did you read the suggested steps? > > http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ/Chapter3#Sensors-detectdoesntworkatall > > Mmm, does not look good. > > You can try to load the latest SystemRescueCD (a livecd) which has the > latest version for "lm-sensors" package. If running "sensors-detect" > there either works, then... dunno :-/ > >> BIOS shows nothing of either fan or temperature. > > Ouch :-( > >> The only temperature indicators are >> hugo(a)debian:~$ cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp 66000 >> hugo(a)debian:~$ cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp 50000 >> >> It is not clear what these refer to. > > Thermal zones are "points" defined to "ring the bell" (getting an alarm > and provide an event → i.e., activating or speeding up the fan) to avoid > overheating, but provided that your ACPI detection is not very accurate, > I won't take that values very seriously. > >> 'fancontrol' is shown as part of the package lm-sensors. > > Yes :-( Lenny has only 2.6.26 kernel. I can try knoppix 6.2.1 which has a 2.6.32 kernel and see if it has a later lm-sensors. Lenny has version 3.0.2 and sid has 3.1.2, don't know if that will make much difference. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i2pr8f$hgc$1(a)dough.gmane.org |