On Friday 16 February 2007 02:46, Andras Lorincz wrote:

and the output of cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/* is:

cooling mode:   active
polling frequency:       30 seconds
state:                   ok
temperature:             49 C
critical (S5):           105 C
passive:                 79 C: tc1=3 tc2=1 tsp=80
devices=0xf7e9c720
active[0]:               65 C: devices=0xc17e4d9c
active[1]:               55 C: devices=0xc17e4d38

Some remarks:

 - the polling frequency is not set by default so I
run a script on startup which sets the polling
frequency to 30 secs

if you don't set polling frequency it is 0?
Does anything not work in that case?

That is the ideal case -- as polling frequency 0
means that the system is event-driven.

If you need to enable polling b/c something isn't working,
3 seconds may be more prudent than 30 seconds.

 - the state reported by
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/state changes correctly
according to changing temperatures but it is not in
accordance with the real state of the cooler.

Do you have /proc/acpi/fan/*/* files?
What do they say?

-Len