Richard Fish wrote: >Ian K wrote: > > > >>Heres the bad news.. I turned my laptop on today, and the fans didn't >>come on like >>they did before, and within five minutes and 1 compile, the laptop was off. >> >> >> >> >> > >Ok, so you defintely have some kind of problem with your fans. Did you >follow the cleaning instructions that others provided? Maybe they are >just too gummed up to spin up reliably? > > The strange thing is though, they do work fine under Windows. Im just Guessing that Linux cant activate them.
>Also, does anyone else here have the same model laptop that can confirm >that the ACPI stuff looks right?? I mean, not even a thermal sensor?? >That seems weird! > >Some of the other things that I have read or can think of that might >effect the fans would be: > >1. In dual boot system with Windows, warm or cold restarts from Windows >to Linux can affect whether the fans spin up. > > What would you recommend along those lines? >2. Firmware (BIOS) updates. (See Sager 9880 and 9860 and "stuck fans"!!) > > I tried that, the BIOS came updated to the most recent version. I should point out its a Phoenix BIOS too, so the toshiba-utils does not work on my system. >3. Whether you are running on AC or battery. > > Always AC, I never run off of a battery if I can help it. > > > >>I get: >> >>CONFIG_ACPI=y >> >> >> >> > >Looks sane to me.... > > > > >>Jul 12 16:45:03 Avalon ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (off-line) >>Jul 12 16:45:03 Avalon ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present) >> >> >> >> > >Do you get better results if you start with the AC power connected? > > The strange thing is, it was connected. That was a detection error in th log. >What if you do a truly cold restart? (remove the battery, unplug then >connect the AC, and then power up). > > I will try that. On the topic of ACPI, I found this post on LinuxQuestions. I post as omega21 there. The thread is in the SuSe Forum, but I doubt it matters too much. What do you make of it? http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=288588 As well, someone else on LQ advised trying APM, instead of ACPI(?). Im not sure if its a good idea or not. Lastly, I found another project that packs Toshiba features into the kernel. Im not sure if I should try it though. http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke/ Cheers, Ian PS>> I hope we can solve this. I forgot how icky Windows XP is. ;) >-Richard > > >
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