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[Nate Lawson]

Max N. Boyarov wrote:
>>>>>> "NL" == Nate Lawson writes:
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>  NL> I assume you were not disconnecting AC power during that time?  These
>  NL> would be normal messages if you were doing that.
>  Yes power is connected.
> 
>  NL> I think the recent EC update is your issue.  I recently committed a
>  NL> major reworking of the embedded controller driver.  See this message:
> 
>  NL> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-February/069525.html
> 
>  NL> See this message for a list of things to try.  The goal is to diagnose
>  NL> why the EC is timing out.  The thermal misdetection is only a symptom.
> 
>  NL> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-February/069577.html
> 
>  NL> The one I think would be most helpful is turning off burst mode, but I
>  NL> would appreciate your help seeing what combo of polling/total timeout
>  NL> works for you.
> 
>  NL> debug.acpi.ec.burst=0
>  this is help. Now i try read source to find how to select
>  "combo of polling/total timeout". Simple change this sysctls don't suit.

I committed a change so that burst mode is disabled by default.

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>  NL> The values are in Kelvin if you don't specify a qualifier.  You need to
>  NL> use this (note the "C")
> 
>  NL> sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz1._CRT=100C
> 
>  Thanks, i confused by  acpi_thermal(4). =)
> 
>  "All temperatures are printed in Celsius.  When setting a value by
>      sysctl(8), do not specify a trailing decimal (i.e., 90 instead of 90.0C)."
>  

I've updated the man page to explain this.

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Nate