ACPI: 2.6.17.7; nothing in /proc/acpi/fan; fans not running; problem not seen before.

zetabill · 07-30-2006, 02:49 AM

Yesterday I downloaded and compiled a new 2.6.17.7 kernel from kernel.org. I have been doing this since I switched to Slackware (10.2/current) almost 4 months ago. My computer is a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop (1.7GHz Intel P4), 256MB RAM, 40GB ATA-HDD. With the exception of the few "practice kernels" I blew through in a few days, I have been very successful in compiling kernels with virtually no problems at all... until this time.

For example, each time I've compiled a kernel that I've used regularly (starting with 2.6.16.16) my cooling fans have been activating normally. I've never had a problem with this sort of "normal PC operation."

Now my cooling fans do not run. To the best of my knowledge this is the only problem I have right now. I have tried to diagnose the problem but I have to admit that I'm at a loss. I suppose that I could revert to an earlier kernel, but that's not much of a challenge right now. Plus I'd hope that someone else could learn from it.

I compiled the kernel normally and everything is set up properly. I have ndiswrapper 1.21 for the wireless card and the NVIDIA display drivers added in to the modules. Everything else is supplied by the kernel modules at compile-time.

I only made one change to the kernel configuration. I was hoping to check out this CPU frequency scaling thing and possibly use it. With the exception of CONFIG_X86_CPUID and CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS this is the only thing that has changed:

Code:

root@yogi:~# zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CPU
CONFIG_X86_CPUID=m
CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4
# CPU Frequency scaling
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=m
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT=m
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE is not set
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=m
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=m
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE is not set
# CPUFreq processor drivers
# CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ is not set
# CONFIG_X86_CPUFREQ_NFORCE2 is not set

I left everything else alone in the config... as it was the old config and it was working perfectly. ACPI and I2C have always been in the config and is right now:

Code:

root@yogi:~# zcat /proc/config.gz | grep ACPI
# Power management options (ACPI, APM)
# ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_SLEEP is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y
CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_IBM is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
# CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_CONTAINER is not set
# CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ is not set
CONFIG_PNPACPI=y

Code:

root@yogi:~# zcat /proc/config.gz | grep I2C
# I2C support
CONFIG_I2C=m
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=m
# I2C Algorithms
# CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCF is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCA is not set
# I2C Hardware Bus support
# CONFIG_I2C_ALI1535 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_ALI1563 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_ALI15X3 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_AMD756 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_AMD8111 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_ELEKTOR is not set
CONFIG_I2C_I801=m
# CONFIG_I2C_I810 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_PIIX4 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_NFORCE2 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT_LIGHT is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_PROSAVAGE is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SAVAGE4 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SIS5595 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SIS630 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SIS96X is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_STUB is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_VIA is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_VOODOO3 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_PCA_ISA is not set
# Miscellaneous I2C Chip support
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CORE is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_ALGO is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_BUS is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CHIP is not set

With that being said... ACPI does not list any fans and the fans do not function.

Code:

root@yogi:~# ls /proc/acpi/fan
root@yogi:~#

Here is some more information that will hopefully be helpful:

Code:

root@yogi:~# dmesg
00fde64
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL    CPi R   0x27d2021a ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fde90
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10000000:eeda0000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Slackware ro root=301 3
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Detected 1695.260 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 256236k/262024k available (2129k kernel code, 5348k reserved, 620k data, 160k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3394.15 BogoMIPS (lpj=6788307)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.70GHz stepping 04
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 0k freed
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0800)
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbfee, last bus=2
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 0880-08bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 5 7) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 5 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIE._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [PADA] (on)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI Exception (evregion-0409): AE_ERROR, Returned by Handler for [PCI_Config] [20060127]
ACPI Exception (dswexec-0458): AE_ERROR, While resolving operands for [AE_NOT_CONFIGURED] [20060127]
ACPI Error (psparse-0517): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.MB6_._CRS] (Node cffd3360), AE_ERROR
ACPI Error (uteval-0158): Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.MB6_._CRS] (Node cffd3360), AE_ERROR
pnp: PnPACPI: METHOD_NAME__CRS failure for PNP0c01
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 16 devices
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
ACPI Exception (evregion-0409): AE_ERROR, Returned by Handler for [PCI_Config] [20060127]
ACPI Exception (dswexec-0458): AE_ERROR, While resolving operands for [AE_NOT_CONFIGURED] [20060127]
ACPI Error (psparse-0517): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.MB6_._CRS] (Node cffd3360), AE_ERROR
ACPI Error (uteval-0158): Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.MB6_._CRS] (Node cffd3360), AE_ERROR
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x800-0x805 could not be reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x808-0x80f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x806-0x807 has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x810-0x85f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x860-0x87f has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x880-0x8bf has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x8c0-0x8ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf000-0xf0fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf100-0xf1fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf200-0xf2fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf400-0xf4fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf500-0xf5fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf600-0xf6fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf800-0xf8fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf900-0xf9fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x900-0x91f has been reserved
pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
  IO window: c000-cfff
  MEM window: fc000000-fdffffff
  PREFETCH window: e0000000-e7ffffff
PCI: Bus 3, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:01.0
  IO window: 0000e000-0000e0ff
  IO window: 0000e400-0000e4ff
  PREFETCH window: 20000000-21ffffff
  MEM window: f4000000-f5ffffff
PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:01.1
  IO window: 0000e800-0000e8ff
  IO window: 00001000-000010ff
  PREFETCH window: 22000000-23ffffff
  MEM window: f6000000-f7ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
  IO window: e000-ffff
  MEM window: f4000000-fbffffff
  PREFETCH window: 20000000-24ffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.1 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1154283619.676:1): initialized
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xd0880000, using 1536k, total 32768k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=3
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:d690
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Pseudocolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=0:0:0:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery absent)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (58 C)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000
intelfb: Framebuffer driver for Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G/915GM chipsets
intelfb: Version 0.9.2
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:0d: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.6 disabled
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH3M: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ICH3M: chipset revision 2
ICH3M: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbfa8-0xbfaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-40, ATA DISK drive
hdb: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2502, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2
hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1280kB Cache, UDMA(33)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
oprofile: using timer interrupt.
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
 LID PBTN PCI0 UAR1 USB0 USB1 USB2 MODM PCIE MPCI
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
ReiserFS: hda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
input: DualPoint Stick as /class/input/input1
input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad as /class/input/input2
ReiserFS: hda1: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda1: journal params: device hda1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda1: checking transaction log (hda1)
ReiserFS: hda1: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Adding 499960k swap on /dev/hda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:499960k
SCSI subsystem initialized
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:01.0 [1028:00d4]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:01.0, mfunc 0x05033002, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0498, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000020
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0xe000 - 0xffff
cs: IO port probe 0xe000-0xffff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xf4000000 - 0xfbffffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x20000000 - 0x24ffffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:01.1 [1028:00d4]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:01.1, mfunc 0x05033002, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0498, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0xe000 - 0xffff
cs: IO port probe 0xe000-0xffff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xf4000000 - 0xfbffffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x20000000 - 0x24ffffff
pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.2[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11]  MMIO=[f8fff000-f8fff7ff]  Max Packet=[2048]  IR/IT contexts=[4/4]
pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: cardmgr.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for details.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x80f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x80f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x378-0x37f
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x378-0x37f
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:02:00.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at d0b28c00.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 55407 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[344fc0002f0d2c21]
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0x0000bf80
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 11, io base 0x0000bf20
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP(,...)]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
ndiswrapper version 1.21 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver lsbcmnds (The Linksys Group, Inc.,02/14/2005, 3.90.36.0) loaded
PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
ndiswrapper: using irq 11
wlan0: vendor: ''
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:13:10:f7:86:10 using driver lsbcmnds, 14E4:4318:1737:0048.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-8178  Wed Dec 14 16:22:51 PST 2005
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-8178  Wed Dec 14 16:22:51 PST 2005
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

There are exceptions and errors that I haven't seen before. Any ideas?
Continuing...

Code:

root@yogi:~# ls -l  /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-07-30 03:43 cooling_mode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-07-30 03:43 polling_frequency
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-07-30 03:43 state
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-07-30 03:43 temperature
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-07-30 03:43 trip_points
root@yogi:~# cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/*
<setting not supported>
cooling mode:   critical
<polling disabled>
state:                   ok
temperature:             50 C
critical (S5):           101 C

Code:

root@yogi:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 Go] (rev b2)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4451 IEEE-1394 Controller
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

I have looked around for this problem and cannot find anything that matches my scenario. I was hoping that maybe someone with a better knowledge of this can offer some help. If I have to revert back to an older kernel I will but I just don't think that adding CPU frequency scaling will take my fans away. I'm up to the challenge.

zetabill · 07-30-2006, 04:27 PM

So I've been rustling with this problem all day and I have more information to add.

I recompiled the new kernel without CPU frequency scaling support and there still isn't anything in acpi/fan. I read somewhere that even though I have and use ACPI on the computer that the fans will work if acpi doesn't recognize them.

Well that's all well and good but my laptop is running awfully hot. Besides that, if the fans do work then I'm not noticing them... IE they work for shorter period of time and activate less frequently.

Does anyone know what is going on?