[Debian-eeepc-devel] how hot is hot? (no more fan)

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Gentlemen, one day I forgot to connect the power cord and ran my EEECP
702 on the battery until it stopped.

Now whenever I power up, right from the BIOS splash boot screen, the
familiar fan is never heard.

Doesn't matter, right? As long as
$ cat /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
45000
doesn't reach
$ cat /sys/devices/virtual/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_crit
90000 ?

I suppose I must write a background script that checks if it is getting
close and beeps me so I will hit ^Z during e.g., aptitude full-upgrades
and other intensive activity, to give the CPU a rest.
Actually I never liked the fan it the first place, and a little peace
and quiet would be worth it.

How can I tell if the fan will ever turn on again?
# echo 1 >| /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device0/cur_state
is probably the wrong file to see if it will still turn on.

How can I tell if what was damaged was the fan or not the fan?

The BIOS is 0502, the latest.