[ltp] Re: T60 Thermal Sensors

Michael Milligan linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 14 May 2006 16:54:27 -0600


Shem Multinymous wrote:
> On 5/14/06, Michael Milligan <milli@acmeps.com> wrote:
> 
>> # cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
>> temperatures:   75 46 41 94 36 -128 32 -128
> 
> 
> 94deg is pretty bad. My T43, with this model's notorious thermal
> problems, has never passed 75deg on any sensors, whatever the load.

It also wasn't helping that I had it sitting on a wooden surface when I 
took those readings.  The bottom of the unit is quite warm.

> What do the 3 extra sensors (see the top of
> http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_sensors) say?
> 
> It might even have more than 3 extra sensors, so try this (on one line):
> 
> perl -ne 'if (s/^EC 0xc0://) {print hex($_)."\n" for m/[0-9a-f]+/g}' <
> /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump

$ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
temperatures:   51 41 39 68 34 -128 31 -128

$ perl -ne 'if (s/^EC 0xc0://) {print hex($_)."\n" for m/[0-9a-f]+/g}' < 
/proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump
45
54
52
128
128
128
128
128
17
90
0
0
0
0
0
0

:-/

Regards,
Mike

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Michael Milligan                                   -> milli@acmeps.com