Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Laurence Vanek wrote: >> I have directories titled "fan" & "thermal_zone" but they are empty. I >> assumed it was because I dont seem to have a thermal.ko & fan.ko to >> load. lsmod does show "button" & "battery" acpi modules loaded. wonder >> what the deal is? >> > If you have the directory, but it is empty, then the module is > loaded, but it did not find any hardware it could monitor. The way I > understand it, if the BIOS ACPI code does not define how to access > the hardware, then loading the module does nothing. This is why you > have the asus_acpi, ibm_acpi, toshiba_acpi, and omnibook modules. > They provide another way to access the hardware, if your machine is > supported. The acpitool program knows how to access the settings of > the first 3 of those modules, and give you the information. > > You can double check if you have the modules by running "modprobe > fan" or "modprobe thermal" as root. If it finds the modules, it will > return without an error message, but if you do not have them, it > will tell you that the module was not found. > > Mikkel I already have tried loading those 2 modules using modprobe. I get "FATAL: Module thermal not found" for both of them. Recently updated my bios so Im fairly sure thats not the problem. I can see hardware monitoring info in bios setup but dont have the thermal or fan modules to look at them using acpitools. Perhaps I should have asked if anyone running FC5 has these 2 modules loaded & working.
