On Friday, 13 October 2006 07:17, Len Brown wrote: > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:03, Daniel Drake wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Ethan, at http://bugs.gentoo.org/142635 reports that the thermal zone > > always reads 40C. Is this something that should be filed at the kernel > > bugzilla for further investigation, or can we simply blame a > > buggy/unfixable BIOS? I understand that i2c/hwmon is the more common way > > of measuring temperatures. > > Probably this isn't specific to a gentoo build and would happen just > the same with a kernel.org build. So if it is a bug, it is probably an > upstream bug. > > However, unless it used to work, or something bad happens, > this is sort of an academic failure. I suppose if you ran Windows > on the box and it displayed a changing temperature via ACPI > but Linux does not, then it would be more interesting. > > It would be good to verify that ACPI events in general > are working on the box -- eg. the power button etc -- as a failure > there would also be more interesting than unchanging temperature.
I guess it may be related to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5534 Greetings, Rafael -- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. R. Buckminster Fuller - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
