[ltp] Sensors still an issue?

[James Holden]

Quoting Boyan <bt@stw-bonn.de>:

> James,
> 
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, James Holden wrote:
> 
> > That's strange. I though the fan speed was a hardware issue. Imagine
> > your Windows OS crashes in an infinite, processor-intensive loop. The
> > software can't control the fan any more so your CPU cooks. Can't
> > imagine that's the case!
> >
> > My TP600X regulates the fan just fine and always has done.
> 
> Do you mean that the fan stops from time to time? That would be
> wonderful. Question is how to achieve this? Do you have lm_sensors
> installed and did you ever run sensors-detect? I have good control
> over the harddisk spin-down, but not on the fan.

Ah, that's the thing.... I never did anything special to make it work! It just 
worked, which is why I assumed it was controlled in hardware. The example I 
gave above was to back up that assumption. ie: would you trust windows to look 
after cooling your cpu?!!! ha ha! I know for certain than lm_sensors is nothing 
to do with it.


> > It may be worth playing with the options in tpctl.
>
> Do you know of some options that give control over the fan. Well, I
> tweaked different CPU options but to no avail. It seems the tpctl
> cannot change the speed on the fly on my machine. If it is booted high
> it stays high.

If your fan never slows, you may have a hardware problem, thinking about it. If 
the temperature sensor has failed it'll run the fan continuously as a failsafe. 
I'm surprised you're not getting any POST errors though.

> > PS: Do you have a DVD drive in you 600X? I have and it's the only thing
> I'm
> > having problems with.
> 
> Yes, I have a dvd and no problems so far. I use it quite intensively,
> actually, because the whole suse distro (7 CDs) is available also on a
> dvd which is a great convenience.

It's the DVD movie playback I'm struggling with. Reading DVD data cds works a 
charm. I've got the hacked neomagic driver for XFree86 4.2.0 with support for 
Xv but it's still jerky. Any ideas? I've run out of things to try.

James


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James Holden, Leeds, United Kingdom
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