[ltp] tp-fancontrol does not work with kernel 3.3.8 on X200

[linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org]

Hi,

Many thanks for your advice.

I am using Gentoo and found the same thinkfan package in it.

Unfortunately I can not tackle thinkfan on weekday, because of
completely no time. But I will enjoy it in weekend.

Cheers,

Hisashi Shiota

At Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:04:41 +0200,
alfon wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I don't know where and with what name, the kernel 3.3.X, present the
> temperature interfaces. But, perhaps, the thinkfan package can help
> you if you are using Debian. If you are not, you can also download it
> from:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/thinkfan/files/
> 
> I hope this help you.
> 
> On 25 September 2012 17:56, Hisashi Shiota <shiota@din.or.jp> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I fetched tp-fancontrol script from the following ThinkWiki page,
> >
> >   http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_control_fan_speed
> >
> > However it does not work with kernel 3.3.8 on my X200.
> > tp-fancontrol shows an error message as follows;
> >
> > 4252 (process ID) old priority 0, new priority -10
> >> Activating watchdog with delay 9 sec
> >> Starting dynamic fan control
> >  ./tp-fancontrol_org: line 242: /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump: No such file or directory
> >> Shutting down, switching to automatic fan control
> >
> > After some investigation, I found the EC dump interface was removed from
> > thinkpad_acpi two years ago.
> >
> >   https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/1/206
> >
> > I invalidate some code accessing EC in tp-fancontrol, because I suppose EC is
> > accessed only to decrease fan noise. And my revised code seems to work somehow.
> > But I am not sure if my workaround is good or not.
> > So if you have better idea than mine or know another solution, any comment are
> > welcome for me.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Hisashi Shiota
> >
> >
> >
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