Stop the acpi daemon you can do it by using chkconfig acpid off service acpid stop

----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Savoie" psavoie1783@rogers.com To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 7:58 AM Subject: [CentOS] erroneous and irritating messages

HI All,

Keep getting the following in the messages file:

Feb 28 21:24:43 hp kernel: ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device [f7d82dec]

'on'

Feb 28 21:25:13 hp last message repeated 5 times

Have hordes of these. All fans are working fine afaikt. Any idea how to

make

the beast stop reporting these messages? I am running kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 #1 SMP.

Thanks in advance,

Phil _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Phil Savoie wrote:

HI All,

Keep getting the following in the messages file:

Feb 28 21:24:43 hp kernel: ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device [f7d82dec] 'on' Feb 28 21:25:13 hp last message repeated 5 times

Have hordes of these. All fans are working fine afaikt. Any idea how to make the beast stop reporting these messages?

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8158 might have a solution for you ...

Cheers,

Ralph