Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
B J wrote: I have a Compaq Presario SR2180NX, which uses a P5LP-LE motherboard. When I bought the machine second hand three years ago, I originally installed and ran FreeBSD 5.5 without the error message. I recall that it began appearing after I installed and ran 6.3, though I don't think it

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-22 Thread B J
snip I've looked at some of the ACPI code file and didn't notice anything obvious which might be responsible for the error message. A quick solution I've used is running a file with: hw.acpi.thermal.user_override: 0 - 1 hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10 - 1800

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
B J wrote: snip I created an ASL file and located what appeared to be the code block where that value was set. I followed the statements and nothing appeared to be unusual. (Of course, I might have missed something because I don't have much experience with ACPI programming.) I was able to

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-22 Thread B J
snip I was able to set the temperature of hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT by changing hex values in my ASL, but _CRT is hard coded whereas _TMP is set dynamically (in my ASL). There is also a problem that the value of _CRT is output by sysctl so I could watch the results of my changes, whereas

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
B J wrote: snip One thing I did notice, however, is when I compiled that file and got two errors arising from: Store (Local0, Local0) where Local0 hadn't been defined in that part of the code. I have no idea how that came about, but it successfully compiled after I commented out that

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-22 Thread B J
snip One thing I did notice, however, is when I compiled that file and got two errors arising from: Store (Local0, Local0) where Local0 hadn't been defined in that part of the code. I have no idea how that came about, but it successfully compiled after I commented out