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#1 2009-07-30 01:38:49

sinister99
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Toshiba Satellite L550 fan control

I'd like to get fanspeed working on my laptop as it always runs full blast, but lm sensors seems to only detect my cpu temps.  I tried probing all the modules lm sensors suggested, and nothing but my cpu temps show up.  I googled and didn't find anything for my laptop model, and it seems there are similar problems with some toshibas in general.  My 5 year old toshiba throttled the fan automatically.

Core2duo and ICH9 chipset if that means anything.

Any help?

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#2 2009-07-30 21:27:10

djszapi
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Re: Toshiba Satellite L550 fan control

Hello Sinister69!

I've found this wiki pages quicklier.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fan_speed_control
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tos … shiba_ACPI

Sorry, if this won't help you.

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#3 2009-07-31 01:11:15

sinister99
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Re: Toshiba Satellite L550 fan control

No luck here; I had been working off the fancontrol page.

None of the modules on the toshiba page worked.  Searched the wiki for toshiba and the newer laptops had different modules too...  Have to play the waiting game perhaps?

root /home/max #  sensors-detect                                                                          
# sensors-detect revision 5729 (2009-06-02 15:51:29 +0200)                                                
# System: TOSHIBA Satellite L505 (laptop)                                                                 
# Board: TOSHIBA Portable PC                                                                              

This program will help you determine which kernel modules you need
to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. It is generally safe  
and recommended to accept the default answers to all questions,   
unless you know what you're doing.                                

Some south bridges, CPUs or memory controllers contain embedded sensors.
Do you want to scan for them? This is totally safe. (YES/no):           
Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595...                       No          
VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors...                          No          
VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors...                            No                                            
AMD K8 thermal sensors...                                   No                                            
AMD K10 thermal sensors...                                  No                                            
Intel Core family thermal sensor...                         Success!                                      
    (driver `coretemp')                                                                                   
Intel AMB FB-DIMM thermal sensor...                         No                                            
VIA C7 thermal and voltage sensors...                       No                                            
                                                                                                          
Some Super I/O chips contain embedded sensors. We have to write to                                        
standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe.                                                   
Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no):                                                      
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f                                                                        
Trying family `National Semiconductor'...                   Yes                                           
Found unknown chip with ID 0xfc11                                                                         
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f                                                                        
Trying family `National Semiconductor'...                   No                                            
Trying family `SMSC'...                                     No                                            
Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Fintek'...                       No                                            
Trying family `ITE'...                                      No                                            
                                                                                                          
Some hardware monitoring chips are accessible through the ISA I/O ports.                                  
We have to write to arbitrary I/O ports to probe them. This is usually                                    
safe though. Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any                                   
ISA slots! Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (YES/no):                                               
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' at 0x290...       No                                            
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' at 0x290...       No                                            
Probing for `Winbond W83781D' at 0x290...                   No                                            
Probing for `Winbond W83782D' at 0x290...                   No                                            
                                                                                                          
Lastly, we can probe the I2C/SMBus adapters for connected hardware                                        
monitoring devices. This is the most risky part, and while it works                                       
reasonably well on most systems, it has been reported to cause trouble                                    
on some systems.                                                                                          
Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? (YES/no):                                                
Using driver `i2c-i801' for device 0000:00:1f.3: Intel ICH9                                               
Module i2c-dev loaded successfully.                                                                       
                                                                                                          
Next adapter: intel drm CRTDDC_A (i2c-0)                                                                  
Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively):                                                             
                                                                                                          
Next adapter: intel drm LVDSDDC_C (i2c-1)                                                                 
Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively):                                                             
Client found at address 0x50                                                                              
Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'...                     No                                            
Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1034'...                     No                                            
Probing for `SPD EEPROM'...                                 No
Probing for `EDID EEPROM'...                                Yes
    (confidence 8, not a hardware monitoring chip)

Next adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 5000 (i2c-2)
Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively):
Client found at address 0x50
Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'...                     No
Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1034'...                     No
Probing for `SPD EEPROM'...                                 Yes
    (confidence 8, not a hardware monitoring chip)
Probing for `EDID EEPROM'...                                No
Client found at address 0x52
Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'...                     No
Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1034'...                     No
Probing for `SPD EEPROM'...                                 Yes
    (confidence 8, not a hardware monitoring chip)

Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done.
Just press ENTER to continue:

Driver `coretemp':
  * Chip `Intel Core family thermal sensor' (confidence: 9)

Do you want to overwrite /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors? (YES/no): no
To load everything that is needed, add this to one of the system
initialization scripts (e.g. /etc/rc.d/rc.local):

#----cut here----
# Chip drivers
modprobe coretemp
/usr/bin/sensors -s
#----cut here----

If you have some drivers built into your kernel, the list above will
contain too many modules. Skip the appropriate ones! You really
should try these commands right now to make sure everything is
working properly. Monitoring programs won't work until the needed
modules are loaded.

Unloading i2c-dev... OK

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#4 2009-07-31 21:11:30

djszapi
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Re: Toshiba Satellite L550 fan control

What do you think is it an application related issue, or whether it can work on other distribution ?

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#5 2009-08-01 11:45:11

sinister99
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Re: Toshiba Satellite L550 fan control

djszapi wrote:

What do you think is it an application related issue, or whether it can work on other distribution ?

I think it is related to lm_sensors

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