[ltp] Expected thermal values on X60

[Martin Lorenz]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 08:56:42AM +0000, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> My X60 has been feeling rather warm lately, and then the last few days
> its been crashing in odd ways (one entry in kern.log says "general
> protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP <kernel backtrace in kswapd>").  So I
> opened it up to clear dust out of the fan, and found there basically
> wasn't any dust in there... so now I'm worried that something trickier
> might be wrong.
> 
> I'm also worried because /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal says:
>    temperatures:	46 35 128 43 26 128 24 128


just for comparison:
i get
$ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
temperatures:	44 47 -128 42 31 -128 24 -128 39 36 -128 -128 -128 -128 -128
-128

Linux gimli 2.6.22.9 #2 SMP Fri Sep 28 20:55:41 CEST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

> I'm hoping those 128s are because in fact those sensors don't exist on
> the X60, but the docs say that missing sensors should be printed as
> -128, not 128... this is with 2.6.22.1 + the tp acpi 20070708 snapshot
> (little weird as a version, I know, but until a few days ago things
> have been working fine so I haven't bothered upgrading).  SMART
> reports my hard-drive is at 37 degrees Celsius.
> 
> So: are those thermal numbers in fact something to be worried about?
> If so, any ideas what could be making the laptop get so hot besides
> dust in the fan?  If not, any other ideas at what would be causing
> these weird crashes?
> 
> -- Nathaniel
> 
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