[SOLVED] Packard Bell EasyNote W3301 - Not showing temperature.

[AndrzejL]

Hi all.

I own Packard Bell EasyNote W3301. It runs fully upgraded PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE. I have noticed that the laptop stopped showing temperature after one of the upgrades.

[andrzejl@wishmasbell ~]$ acpi -V
Battery 0: Unknown, 0%
Battery 0: design capacity 65392 mAh, last full capacity 2896 mAh = 4%
Adapter 0: on-line
Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 10
[andrzejl@wishmasbell ~]$

Linux wishmasbell.loc 2.6.38.2-pclos1.bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 29 09:55:31 CDT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Any expert around to help me troubleshot / fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Andy

[AS]

Hi all.

I own Packard Bell EasyNote W3301. It runs fully upgraded PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE. I have noticed that the laptop stopped showing temperature after one of the upgrades.

[andrzejl@wishmasbell ~]$ acpi -V
Battery 0: Unknown, 0%
Battery 0: design capacity 65392 mAh, last full capacity 2896 mAh = 4%
Adapter 0: on-line
Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 10
[andrzejl@wishmasbell ~]$

Linux wishmasbell.loc 2.6.38.2-pclos1.bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 29 09:55:31 CDT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Any expert around to help me troubleshot / fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Andy

what's your battery ? from your car ? 65000mAh = 65Ah   

BTW, same problem here, missing temp sensor after latest update.

AS

[AndrzejL]

Hehe the battery is inserted but dead .

I must add that lm_sensors are installed and sensors-detect was ran as root and the machine was rebooted.

[andrzejl@wishmasbell ~]$ su
Password:
[root@wishmasbell andrzejl]# rpm -qa | grep sensor
liblm_sensors4-3.3.0-1pclos2011
lm_sensors-3.3.0-1pclos2011
[root@wishmasbell andrzejl]# sensors-detect
# sensors-detect revision 5946 (2011-03-23 11:54:44 +0100)
# System: NEC Computers International Packard Bell EasyNote (laptop)
# Board: NEC Computers International Dragon A

This program will help you determine which kernel modules you need
to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. It is generally safe
and recommended to accept the default answers to all questions,
unless you know what you're doing.

Some south bridges, CPUs or memory controllers contain embedded sensors.
Do you want to scan for them? This is totally safe. (YES/no): YES
Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595...                       No
VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors...                          No
VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors...                            No
AMD K8 thermal sensors...                                   Success!
    (driver `k8temp')
AMD Family 10h thermal sensors...                           No
AMD Family 11h thermal sensors...                           No
AMD Family 12h and 14h thermal sensors...                   No
Intel digital thermal sensor...                             No
Intel AMB FB-DIMM thermal sensor...                         No
VIA C7 thermal sensor...                                    No
VIA Nano thermal sensor...                                  No

Some Super I/O chips contain embedded sensors. We have to write to
standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe.
Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): YES
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f
Trying family `National Semiconductor'...                   No
Trying family `SMSC'...                                     No
Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'...               No
Trying family `ITE'...                                      No
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f
Trying family `National Semiconductor'...                   No
Trying family `SMSC'...                                     No
Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'...               No
Trying family `ITE'...                                      No

Some hardware monitoring chips are accessible through the ISA I/O ports.
We have to write to arbitrary I/O ports to probe them. This is usually
safe though. Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any
ISA slots! Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (YES/no): YES
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' at 0x290...       No
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' at 0x290...       No
Probing for `Winbond W83781D' at 0x290...                   No
Probing for `Winbond W83782D' at 0x290...                   No

Lastly, we can probe the I2C/SMBus adapters for connected hardware
monitoring devices. This is the most risky part, and while it works
reasonably well on most systems, it has been reported to cause trouble
on some systems.
Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? (YES/no): YES
Using driver `i2c-ali15x3' for device 0000:00:1e.1: Acer Labs 1533/1543
Using driver `i2c-ali1535' for device 0000:00:1e.1: Acer Labs 1535
Module i2c-dev loaded successfully.

Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done.
Just press ENTER to continue:

Driver `k8temp' (autoloaded):
  * Chip `AMD K8 thermal sensors' (confidence: 9)

No modules to load, skipping modules configuration.

Unloading i2c-dev... OK

[root@wishmasbell andrzejl]#

Please do ask if You have any questions.

Regards.

Andy

[AS]

it's broken in mainstream kde, now fixed, we have just to wait for PCLinuxOS updates:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270246
https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdebase/kde-workspace/repository/revisions/23863a99399cbb274f6756146b3c08de2efa0c7f

AS

[AndrzejL]

Ah yes... Cool beans. I hope this is the bug we have caught.

I have decided to switch to a64 kernel since my machine is equipped with k8 based Sempron CPU maybe it will keep the X process usage at some reasonable level .

Andy

[AndrzejL]

Weird... acpi -V shows no temperature...

[root@wishmasbell proc]# acpi -V
Battery 0: Unknown, 0%
Battery 0: design capacity 65392 mAh, last full capacity 2896 mAh = 4%
Adapter 0: on-line
Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 10
[root@wishmasbell proc]#

BUT sensors does...

[root@wishmasbell proc]# sensors
k8temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Core0 Temp:   +57.0°C
root@wishmasbell proc]#

and its being read by the "Hardware Temperature" widget...

Marking it as solved .

Thanks for the upgrade Texstar!

Andy