Post the result of "sysctl hw.acpi.thermal" That's a good place to start
looking for the problem.
On Thursday 05 May 2005 02:47 pm, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> I have an IBM ThinkPad T41p running FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE. I haven't
> touched anything system-related in a while.
>
> Two days ago I realized that my fan was on even though the system
> was under a very light load. After some time of this, I shut the
> lid to suspend it, and the fan was off on resume. That night
> the machine crashed, and /var/log/messages showed that it had shut
> itself down because it got too hot. I left it up anyway, and the
> same thing happened last night. Today, however, the fan suddenly
> turned itself back on, and now it's running constantly under no
> load.
>
> Is this likely to be a hardware problem, and I should just bring
> it in for service? Or are there software issues I should explore
> first? I don't have another OS loaded to see if things are
> different. I'm running ACPI, but have no idea what this means as
> far as heat management is concerned.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
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