topic title: Fan problems
Posts: 316
DJiNN
Joined: 26 Oct 2007
#1
I'm having a few problems on my laptop with the fan. Although it's OK whilst running & everything works fine, if i do a CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to come out of X & re-run Slim, it generally drops to whatever runlevel it drops to, and then repeats the same message, which is something about the"Fan not being able to be stopped" and something about"Transitioning to 3D or D3". (Sorry for the rather obscure terminology there, but i'll remember to write it down next time i boot up and then post here). __{{emoticon}}__

It cycles endlessly doing this, and the only way out is a complete reboot (CTRL-ALT-DEL) and then start again.

This is on a Core 2 Duo laptop BTW. Anyone else experienced similar at all?
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eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#2
see what dmesg | tail spits out in a terminal. You might get some hints.
Posts: 316
DJiNN
Joined: 26 Oct 2007
#3
Thanks for that eriefisher. Just ran it in a terminal and this is what it spat out......

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ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZVL] (27 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZCR] (38 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZCL] (27 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ01] (38 C)
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
I have to say that most of the above doesn't mean much to me, so any hints as to problems or things to try would be great. __{{emoticon}}__
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eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#4
I'm like you and don't understand alot of it but I do see ACPI issues high temp or a misread. Use sysvconfig and temporarily turn off ACPI on boot and see if the issue remains. You must reboot for it to take effect.
Posts: 316
DJiNN
Joined: 26 Oct 2007
#5
OK, i ran sysvconfig and turned off"fancontrol" and that seems to have done the trick. Now when i CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE it drops out of X nicely and doesn't loop with the fan problem. __{{emoticon}}__

But, now when i do a dmesg | tail i get the following .....

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ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device [c2116608] 'off'
ACPI: Transitioning device [FAN0] to D3
ACPI: Transitioning device [FAN0] to D3
ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device [c2116608] 'off'
ACPI: Transitioning device [FAN0] to D3
ACPI: Transitioning device [FAN0] to D3
ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device [c2116608] 'off'
ACPI: Transitioning device [FAN0] to D3
ACPI: Transitioning device [FAN0] to D3
ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device [c2116608] 'off'
Maybe i should just disable ACPI altogether? I don't really know enough about the whole ACPI/ACPID subject to know whether that's a good idea or not, but i guess it's worth a try.
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eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#6
It's just power management so it shouldn't hurt anything. try it out.