Re: PROBLEM: CPU fan shuts down on load of fan.ko in kernel 2.6.18 and later

[Salatiel Filho]

On 1/9/07, Karasyov, Konstantin A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Matthew,

Could you please perform the following testing:

Well , i tried to perform this steps in my machine since i think my
fans are not working in linux. Well , for my surprise , i have
absolutely nothing in

# ls -lh  /proc/acpi/fan/
total 0

1. boot, make sure the fan doesn't spin.

2. do 'cat /proc/acpi/thermal/*/*', check the following:
        - the 'state' field shows 'active[<smthng>]'
        (if not - perform some CPU-intensive task);
        - fan still doesn't spin,

#cat /proc/acpi/thermal/*/*
cat: /proc/acpi/thermal/*/*: No such file or directory

#cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/*
<setting not supported>
cooling mode:   critical
<polling disabled>
state:                   ok
temperature:             60 C
critical (S5):           99 C
<setting not supported>
cooling mode:   critical
<polling disabled>
state:                   ok
temperature:             27 C
critical (S5):           105 C

3. do 'cat /proc/acpi/fan/*/state', check the following:
        - the 'status' field shows 'on' (at least one of them);
        - fan still doesn't spin,

# cat /proc/acpi/fan/*/state
cat: /proc/acpi/fan/*/state: No such file or directory

4a. do consequently (as root) the following:
        - 'echo 3 > /proc/acpi/fan/*/state'
        - 'echo 0 > /proc/acpi/fan/*/state'
        (the fan should be that one, which shown 'on' in step 3)

4b. (if step 3 failed) do (as root) 'echo 0 > /proc/acpi/fan/*/state'
consequently for each fan device under /proc/acpi/fan/, check the
following:
        - fans start spinning;
        - fans' states are correct ('cat /proc/acpi/fan/*/state'
command)

5. check if the fan(s) start spinning.

Please, get back to me with the results, test flow description and
commands' outputs.

Also, you could try the patches from bugs ##7122, 7570 for 2.6.20-rc3 to
see if it help.

any ideas why i have no /proc/acpi/fan/*?

Notebook HP Pavillion dv8230us

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