https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404302 User a.vankaam@chello.nl added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404302#c8 --- Comment #8 from Alexander van Kaam <a.vankaam@chello.nl> 2008-07-03 09:59:25 MDT --- (In reply to comment #5 from Jean Delvare)
Alex! I can't believe it :) It has been such a long time, how are you doing?
The temperature reported by the coretemp kernel driver changed between 103 and 11.0 because it's fundamentally reported as a relative temperature by the CPU. As you can see, the high temperature limit changed from 85°C to 100°C because our heuristic to determine the limit based on the CPU model changed. The important thing is that the difference between the measured temperature and the high temperature limit did not change for you between 10.3 and 11.0 (85 - 36 = 49, 100 - 52 = 48.) So physically the temperature is really the same (and you have a huge safety margin.) I know it's confusing, but blame it on Intel for not clearly documenting the high temperature limit for all their CPU models.
So, if something in your system was overheating, it was not visible in the output of "sensors".
I have no idea why your fans were running faster, nor why they no longer do.
Werner, Alex certainly has a CPU fan, just the default sensors.conf labels do not match his motherboard.
Yes it is Jean, really nice to see your name still around in relation to sensor chips :-) I agree that the temperature now (and also in the attachments) was relativly the same, but just have no explenation for either the higher fan speed or the smell/heat. If I ever encounter it again I will try to be more thurough, am linux noob right now, lm_sensors has a dump option yet to show me all registers of the superio ? ;) sensors3.conf has been customized by now so all is displaying ok. Curious, how is the hw vendor support these days ? improved ? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.