Comment 23 for bug 1179282

Hello.

Attached is a 'i8kmon' version that might fix the freeze. I modified it to probe fan speeds in the beginning, and use these values when necessary. And also I did selective read of values with 'i8kctl', avoiding read '/proc/i8k' directly. Thanks TomL. Although this 'i8kmon' file is intended to work without causing freeze, if someone do '# echo /proc/i8k' in terminal then will notice freeze as before due to the bug in the 'i8k' module. To completely solve the freeze, it is needed to submit a patch to the kernel mainline.

Please, test that. I plan to release this version as 1.38 in my ppa.

Vitor