Re: 2.6.24 Temperature/speed _not_ normal - no thermal throttling?

2008-02-25 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 02/20/2008 01:18 AM, Ron Rechenmacher wrote: Hi, I believe I am having a critical thermal problem. I do not know if it is limited to the 2.6.24.2 kernel which I am running. I do see there has been some discussion about thermal zones and throttling on the list, but I can not tell if it

Re: 2.6.24 Temperature/speed _not_ normal - no thermal throttling?

2008-02-22 Thread Len Brown
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 01:18, Ron Rechenmacher wrote: my dell d830 laptop seems to over heat and hang. Ron, see Thermal Issues here: http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/debug.php My guess is that ACPI (and thus Linux) have no control over the fans on this system (as I've never seen a

Re: 2.6.24 Temperature/speed _not_ normal - no thermal throttling?

2008-02-20 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Hi Ron, Throttling is meant as a last line of defense before powering-off machine, and not a thermal regulation feature. Please check if you have cpufreq compiled in and able to change frequency. Please open a bug report at bugzilla.kernel.org against ACPI/Thermal. Please attach dmesg output

2.6.24 Temperature/speed _not_ normal - no thermal throttling?

2008-02-19 Thread Ron Rechenmacher
Hi, I believe I am having a critical thermal problem. I do not know if it is limited to the 2.6.24.2 kernel which I am running. I do see there has been some discussion about thermal zones and throttling on the list, but I can not tell if it means that thermal throttling is not working in