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DateThu, 17 May 2007 23:53:21 +0200
FromPavel Machek <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 [cannot change thermal trip points]
On Thu 2007-05-17 15:08:39, Len Brown wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 09:36, Maciej Rutecki wrote:
> 
> > Many people need change trippoints, for example I have:
> > 
> > cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ0/trip_points  | grep critical
> > critical (S5):           256 C
> > 
> > I _must_ change it to below 105 C, or edit DSDT table (too difficult to
> > me). I cannot use this kernel, when trip points are read only.
> 
> What bad things happen if you leave the critical trip point at 256?
> Do you find that you can drive the temperature over 105 and
> the system fails to shut down?

Something similar happened to me on XE3, yes.

(Actual values were different; BIOS specified critical temperature at
cca 95C, but hw killed the power at cca 83C. Setting critical trip
point at 80C made the problem go away.)
								Pavel
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