fan

Firmware Test Suite - fan test

This test simple looks for the existence of fan devices and with version V0.23.19 also exercises the CPU and checks to see if any fan status has changed.

Examples:

fwts fan -

..runs the fan test on your machine and dumps the output to stdout.

Explanation of test results

Certain test results may require a little more explanation. This section will try and give some context to specific test failures.

Error ID

Explanation

NoFanType

The /sys thermal control entry should have a type file but this does not seem to exist.

NoFanMaxState

The /sys thermal control entry should have a max_state file but this does not seem to exist.

NoFanCur`State

The /sys thermal control entry should have a cur_state file but this does not seem to exist.

FanCurStateDecreased

The cur_state has decreased after exercising the CPU, it is expected to increase.

FirmwareTestSuite/Reference/fan (last edited 2016-01-11 07:23:48 by anthonywong)