[ltp] [t42] ibm-acpi Thermal questions

Graziano Obertelli linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:45:04 -0700


I have a T41 with a 2200bg card, and my card at the present reads 44. I
don't think I've seen it to reach even close to 60. Have you enabled the
power management on the card (iwconfig eth? power on)?

graziano

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:17 -0500, R. Davenport wrote:
> I don't mean to be pesky, but any info about this is appreciated.  I'm
> about to rip apart the acpi codebase and fix it myself.
> 
> Thanks,
> Roger
> 
> On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 12:21 -0500, R. Davenport wrote:
> > My thermal from /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal reads 60 degrees for the
> > mini-pci.  Is this normal?  I've air-cleaned the entire unit (removed
> > keyboard, etc..)
> > 
> > I'm suspecting this may have to do with the embedded controller bios
> > update I installed, as it affects windows and linux (2.6.12 stock, with
> > ibm-acpi 0.11 applied).  Otherwise, perhaps I have a bad 2200bg card.
> > 
> > -Roger
> >