Re: Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-19 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 08:54:26PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: Tobias Ulmer schreef op 2015-07-15 02:33: As we all know, some Thinkpads have problems with their EC fan control. EC is not spinning up the fans to maximum speed, let alone blast mode. They also do not offer ACPI methods to spin

Re: Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-17 Thread Mark Kettenis
Tobias Ulmer schreef op 2015-07-15 05:42: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 05:12:41AM +0300, Paul Irofti wrote: I am not familiar with all the fan hack specifics so please keep that in mind if my questions and comments seem trivial. This is an attempt to solve the problem slightly differently. -

Re: Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-17 Thread Mark Kettenis
Tobias Ulmer schreef op 2015-07-15 02:33: As we all know, some Thinkpads have problems with their EC fan control. EC is not spinning up the fans to maximum speed, let alone blast mode. They also do not offer ACPI methods to spin the fan up. Previous diffs doing manual fan control were always

Re: Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-17 Thread Vadim Zhukov
17 июля 2015 г. 22:24 пользователь Mark Kettenis mark.kette...@xs4all.nl написал: Tobias Ulmer schreef op 2015-07-15 05:42: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 05:12:41AM +0300, Paul Irofti wrote: I am not familiar with all the fan hack specifics so please keep that in mind if my questions and comments

Re: Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-15 Thread Michael McConville
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:28:49PM -0500, Adam Thompson wrote: Although I agree the fan speed handling under OpenBSD still has room for improvement... I haven't run OpenBSD on it for any significant amount of time since the ~recent changes to improve Thinkpad power usage. The C-state changes

Re: Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-15 Thread Adam Thompson
On 2015-07-14 09:13 PM, Michael McConville wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:04:07AM +0200, Tobias Ulmer wrote: Theo is asking for affected models, so lets compile a list. All my Thinkpads can be provoked into shutdown due to overtemp because the fan doesn't spin up: T60 T61 X201 I've had it

Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-14 Thread Tobias Ulmer
As we all know, some Thinkpads have problems with their EC fan control. EC is not spinning up the fans to maximum speed, let alone blast mode. They also do not offer ACPI methods to spin the fan up. Previous diffs doing manual fan control were always rejected because hooking into the sensors

Re: Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-14 Thread Paul Irofti
I am not familiar with all the fan hack specifics so please keep that in mind if my questions and comments seem trivial. This is an attempt to solve the problem slightly differently. - Hook into acpitz and only speed the fan up when it is requesting active cooling - Never set the fan to a

Re: Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-14 Thread Tobias Ulmer
Theo is asking for affected models, so lets compile a list. All my Thinkpads can be provoked into shutdown due to overtemp because the fan doesn't spin up: T60 T61 X201

Re: Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-14 Thread Michael McConville
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:04:07AM +0200, Tobias Ulmer wrote: Theo is asking for affected models, so lets compile a list. All my Thinkpads can be provoked into shutdown due to overtemp because the fan doesn't spin up: T60 T61 X201 I've had it happen on my X201, but only once in the ~6

Re: Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-14 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 05:12:41AM +0300, Paul Irofti wrote: I am not familiar with all the fan hack specifics so please keep that in mind if my questions and comments seem trivial. This is an attempt to solve the problem slightly differently. - Hook into acpitz and only speed the fan up

Re: Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-14 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:03:45AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: Tobias Ulmer wrote: As we all know, some Thinkpads have problems with their EC fan control. EC is not spinning up the fans to maximum speed, let alone blast mode. They also do not offer ACPI methods to spin the fan up.

Re: Thinkpad active cooling

2015-07-14 Thread Ted Unangst
Tobias Ulmer wrote: As we all know, some Thinkpads have problems with their EC fan control. EC is not spinning up the fans to maximum speed, let alone blast mode. They also do not offer ACPI methods to spin the fan up. Previous diffs doing manual fan control were always rejected because