Fan not spinning up/no module for ACPI PM

I'm a little confused here.
First off, this is a laptop (an old Toshiba) with a Celeron-M (420?).  It can't run too long before shutting down because it gets too hot because the fan will not spin up.  The actual fan is fine, as it runs properly on windows.
I looked around when I was trying to get ACPI up and running for power management(it couldn't find a proper module to use) and found this:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33104
Do I need this?
I did try installing it yesterday (with the working pkgbuild in the most recent comment) and while building the kernel, it "spammed" warnings all over and I didn't bother using it.  I didn't change anything in the kernel config menu.
Last edited by JerichoKru (2010-05-06 21:00:06)

Toshibas for whatever reason are not friendly to Linux. I'm running one with "acpi=ht" in the grub boot line (results in "select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out" error for both cores, but does not with acpi=off). There are no ACPI functions (nothing in /sys whatsoever) but the fan does speed up and down at times (unlike with acpi=off, where it always runs at default speed) (temperature from the only hardware monitor found hangs around 64 degrees celsius, usually),
[skyalmian@alcyone ~]$ sensors
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +63.0°C (high = +70.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
and no power management to speak of, including battery -- it's all unrecognized by the system, even with installed packages. Meh, I'm fine with it, though. It just means that without knowing the status of the battery I keep mental track of how long the system is on when not plugged in. This Toshiba L505D-S5983 had a poor battery rating on Windows @ only 2 hours max doing generic things, so I round down to just one hour. I was using it one day without it plugged in and it just shut off when the battery went empty.
Threads you should see about Toshibas
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87573
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=90942
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87213
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86802
(For anyone with ArchWiki access, can/maybe add this.)
Last edited by Skyalmian (2010-05-07 17:28:45)

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