Hello, I'm running Debian Unstable on my laptop and have a question about trip points in ACPI thermal zones.
My laptop gets too hot when I compile a kernel, or in font generation during installation of a latex font. This causes the laptop to shutdown. On my laptop (Asus L8400K) the trip points are: # cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/trip_points critical (S5): 80 C passive: 70 C: tc1=1 tc2=4 tsp=300 devices=0xc127cb60 active[0]: 60 C: devices=0xc127b800 When I set them to: # echo -n "80:0:60:55:0" > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/trip_points # cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/trip_points critical (S5): 80 C passive: 60 C: tc1=1 tc2=4 tsp=300 devices=0xc127cb60 active[0]: 55 C: devices=0xc127b800 I get much better results and it rarely overheats. But, for some reason, the trip points get reset every now and then (usually within 30 mintes or so, don't know the exact interval). Does anyone know what causes the trip point setting to be reset? I'm using debian kernel 2.6.14 with udev from unstable. Thanks, Olaf
