M Stefan, 18.08.2011: > Hello, > > I own a Dell Inspiron N5010 with a Core i5 M450 (2.4GHz) CPU > and my cooler does not appear to work properly on Debian 6.0.1 > (2.6.32-5-amd64). > I have built the latest version of lm-sensors (as opposed to getting the old > packaged one > via apt-get, which didn't find any sensors), and `sensors-detect' finds a > single sensor, > "Intel digital thermal sensor" (driver coretemp), as well as some other > unknown chip. > > Although the `sensors' command is capable of measuring my CPU temperature, I > cannot > seem to be able to load the coretemp module into the kernel. coretemp is > located at > /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/**kernel/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.**ko, yet > modprobe coretemp > yields: > FATAL: Error inserting coretemp (/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/** > kernel/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.**ko): No such device > > I have tried compiling a newer version of coretemp without much success (I > assume I > need to rebuild some other stuff too, I tried the coretemp from linux3.0's > git repo). > I'm not sure why my cooler does not seem to properly work on Debian, so I > thought > that maybe loading the coretemp module would help with my problem. I'm > currently > running an actual fan behind my laptop so it doesn't shut down (temperature > is usually > at 80C, but after a while it gets to 102C, at which point the kernel > announces that it > has reached the critical value in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/**trip_points > and shuts down to > prevent damage). > > This is most surely not a hardware issue, as I'm normally using Windows 7 > and I have > no heating issues there. This is a nearly fresh installation of Debian, and > `top' shows > a low CPU usage, so this is not caused by doing some really cpu-intensive > tasks either. > > I'm not sure exactly what additional information should I provide to > properly diagnose > this problem, so please let me know if there's anything else you need to > know. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Yours faithfully, > Stefan M
You might need a newer kernel. At http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices it says "support for Clarkdale and later cores was added in kernel 2.6.35," which your i5 M450 seems to be, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_i5. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110818215421.gb11...@cs.utexas.edu
