hp ze4560 thermal problem

[Nate Lawson]

Dan Cojocar wrote:
> 		Hello,
> 	I have a hp ze4560us notebook, i'm running current and i'm having problems with cooling system. 
> 	The cooler is running nonstop but the reported temperature is always high, beetween 70 and 75C and in win the average temparature is 55-60C and the fan is running from time to time, and if i increase the ec.pool_timeout to 1000 then i will get a message like this:
> 		WARNING - current temperature (138.0C) exceeds safe limits
> 	Followed by a shutdown, i get this only when ec.pool_timeout is set to 1000, if i let the default value i will get AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE and everything seems ok, only that the temperature is around 70C and the fan is running :(.
> 	I noticed that my hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active is set -1 and i can't change this value, what is this meaning?
> 	Please see my dmesg, asl dump, and sysctl -a hw.acpi here: http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/acpi/
> 	Please note that i have the last bios version for this hp model.
> 		I apreciate all your help, thanks.
> 									Dan 
>

This should be fixed in recent -currents since July 1.

-Nate