Sheer El-Showk wrote: > Yes, this is quite reminicent of my experience with the fans. I > thought it might be lag on stuff that I did earlier but I'm not sure. > Nicolas has suggested that the SMC uses additional temperature > monitors that are not exposed by the applesmc module.
Not what I said (or maybe not what I meant). I said the fan are very probably controlled by temperature sensors connected to the SMC, but not the sensors inside the CPU (i.e. not the values reported by coretemp). We might have the sensors that actually control the fan speed in the sysfs directory, I don't know... I tried to find a correlation with a lot of data at some point, but I couldn't. [snip] Second, it > assumes the fans are entirely driven by the hardware SMC controller > and not by anything the smc module is (or isn't) doing. Somehow it > seems a lot more concievable to me that the SMC module itself is doing > something wrong but I haven't looked at it at all so I'm really just > guessing here. I did some debugging of the OS X kernel a while ago, and the only sensors OS X is polling is the light sensors, to adjust the keyboard backlight. Actually, if you look at the assembly code of the AppleSMC modules in OS X, there is no single reference to the fans and temperature keys (I got these keys from the source code of smcfancontrol (OS X app, no sure of the exact name))). Best regards, Nicolas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
