laptop fan permanently on in FC5

[Dave Mitchell]

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:49:28AM -0700, Filippos Klironomos wrote:
> Same problem here with a Compaq Presario 2500. If you do a
> 
> cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/temperature
> 
> you see that the temperature is 45 C which used to be enough for all
> the fans to turn off. Now only when it goes down to 44 C that happens.

# cd /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/
# cat cooling_mode
<setting not supported>
cooling mode:   critical
# cat polling_frequency
<polling disabled>
# cat state
state:                   ok
# cat temperature
temperature:             35 C
# cat trip_points
critical (S5):           99 C
#


# cd /proc/acpi/fan
# ls -l
total 0
#

Any idea where I should go next?

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