On Friday 16 February 2007 02:46, Andras Lorincz wrote:

> and the output of cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/* is:
> 
> cooling mode:   active
> polling frequency:       30 seconds
> state:                   ok
> temperature:             49 C
> critical (S5):           105 C
> passive:                 79 C: tc1=3 tc2=1 tsp=80
> devices=0xf7e9c720
> active[0]:               65 C: devices=0xc17e4d9c
> active[1]:               55 C: devices=0xc17e4d38
> 
> Some remarks:
> 
>  - the polling frequency is not set by default so I
> run a script on startup which sets the polling
> frequency to 30 secs

if you don't set polling frequency it is 0?
Does anything not work in that case?

That is the ideal case -- as polling frequency 0
means that the system is event-driven.

If you need to enable polling b/c something isn't working,
3 seconds may be more prudent than 30 seconds.

>  - the state reported by
> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/state changes correctly
> according to changing temperatures but it is not in
> accordance with the real state of the cooler.

Do you have /proc/acpi/fan/*/* files?
What do they say?

-Len
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