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#1 2008-10-31 16:55:59

Cheesebaron
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Fan not kicking in. IBM TP X60T

Hello fellow archlinux users,

Not really sure if this goes here, but I have an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad X60 Tablet, which I have been running Gentoo on for ages until I recently changed to Archlinux because of my lack of time beeing spent on Gentoo. Arch seems to be very nice and I'm liking it a lot.
Though I have found out that the fan is not kicking in when the temperature gets high on the laptop, which it did when I ran Gentoo.

What I have done so far.

- I've installed acpid and it's in my rc.conf and running.
- thinkpad_acpi module is loaded.
- I can control the fan manually through /proc/acpi/ibm/fan.

I've noticed that in:
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/trip_points
it says:
critical (S5):           127 C
and in
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM1/trip_points
critical (S5):           97 C
passive:                 93 C: tc1=5 tc2=4 tsp=600 devices=CPU0 CPU1

both seem too high to me, cause the computer gets really hot when in use.

I've been looking at some scripts that can control the fan speed for me, but I'd really like to let the acpi daemon do it for me, or the built in controller for that. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?

Right now I'm just echo'ing the level of the fan speed manually, otherwise I might get burnt or something.

Last edited by Cheesebaron (2008-10-31 17:02:54)

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#2 2008-10-31 17:01:37

Cheesebaron
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Registered: 2008-10-31
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Re: Fan not kicking in. IBM TP X60T

Oh and I'm also loading the thinkpad_acpi module with experimental=1 fan_control=1 if that makes any difference.

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