[ltp] Running with line power and no battery

[Adam Sloboda]

At Sun, 2 Mar 2008 11:22:15 -0300,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
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> Hi Adam!
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> On Sun, 02 Mar 2008, Adam Sloboda wrote:
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> > At Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:26:05 +0100,
> > Dom  wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > And BTW, thanks - I just discovered the sensors.conf file and now I
> > > have a similar sensors output except that I have no way to figure out
> > > what temperatures number 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11 show on my Z61m -
> > > I've searched the Internet unsuccessfully - is there any way to find
> > > out this maybe from IBM, err... Lenovo?
> > > I'm not keen on opening my ThinkPad, finding them on my own and then
> > > cooling them down while having the ThinkPad on... [?? is that how
> > > Milos Popovic did it with his A31 (as reported in ThinkWiki article
> > > titled Thermal Sensors)?]
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> > gkrellm names most of sensors (and they certainly aren't from
> > lm-sensors and match numbers from /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal).
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> I'd recommend the weirdo living behind the bridge as a better bet for bli=
nd
> faith than *anything* in a monitoring applet.
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> You can guess a few of the sensors, they seem to be somewhat standard on
> *most* thinkpads (see the thinkpad-acpi docs or thinkwiki).  But if you w=
ant
> to be able to get to this level:
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> thinkpad-isa-0000
> Adapter: ISA adapter
> fan1:                3067 RPM
> CPU:                  +42.0=B0C                                   =20
> LAN/Heatsink/HDAPS:   +41.0=B0C                                   =20
> PC-CARD slot:         +32.0=B0C                                   =20
> GPU:                  +45.0=B0C                                   =20
> Main battery charger: +31.0=B0C                                   =20
> Bay battery charger:  +30.0=B0C                                   =20
> Main battery cells:   +25.0=B0C                                   =20
> Bay battery cells:    +29.0=B0C                                   =20
> MCH:                  +40.0=B0C                                   =20
> PLL clock/ICH/WLAN:   +45.0=B0C                                   =20
> Voltage regulator:    +40.0=B0C                                   =20
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> Then you need to open up the ThinkPad, find the location of the sensors, =
and
> also look at everything near the sensor.  The above is for a 26xx T43,
> *only*.
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I don't really care that much: I can feel the temperature, I can hear
it (fan or alternatively reported RPM) and I really can see that
sensor marked as CPU grows with load, PCI grows with OpenGL rendering
load and BAT1/BAT2 when charging.  Actually, that's more than I care
about.

Regards,
Adam