On 18/08/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Alright, I'm stumped. How does one configure a FC6 system (running > > KDE) to automatically shutdown if the CPU temp goes to high? > > > > I've just replaced the faulty fan on an AMD with a good Intel fan, but > > it does not sit well and it is liable to get stuck on the heatsink. > > I'd like the machine to shutdown rather than cook itself, as it did > > when the original fan went belly-up. I actually smelled it: that's how > > I knew something was wrong. The BIOS said it was at 108 degrees > > celsius! (AMD Duron 1.3 GHz). > > > > Dotan Cohen > > > Can you monitor the fan speed and CPU temp with lmsensors? If so, > check in the different monitor programs for them. It might be better > to shut down when if the CPU fan stops, before the temp starts to > rise. Another possibility is that your BIOS may offer an option to > shut down, or generate an ACPI event when the temp passes the preset > alarm point. You can look into trapping this event and doing a > shutdown. I believe you can use acpid for this. (For this to work, > you should be able to check the temps in > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/<something>/state. (going by memory here - > this machine does not support it.) Thanks, Mikkel. Nothing in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone, it's an empty directory. And the BIOS cannot, apparently, send ACPI signals to the OS, even though one of the BIOS options is "ACPI aware OS". I can choose yes, but then there is nothing else that I can configure. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/
