what happened to ectool?

Laine Gholson

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Oct 29, 2016, 10:15:17 PM10/29/16

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chrome 56.0.2903.0 canary on nyan_blaze doesn't have ectool anymore

any idea where it went?

Vadim Bendebury

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Oct 31, 2016, 12:20:35 PM10/31/16

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IIRC there were some changes to limit its inclusion to test/factory images only.

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On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Laine Gholson <laine....@gmail.com> wrote:

chrome 56.0.2903.0 canary on nyan_blaze doesn't have ectool anymore

any idea where it went?

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Mike Frysinger

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Oct 31, 2016, 1:11:54 PM10/31/16

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right ... it's not needed in release images, so we made it consistent across boards to help save space

-mike

Toby C

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Nov 2, 2016, 5:38:42 PM11/2/16

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Hello,

As a general beta user I have to inform you that this update to save space has single-handedly bricked my Chromebook.

This is primarily due to the issue of Gen 1 Chromebook Pixel's overheating an issue that was bodged fixed using fan control provided in ectool using such a command:

while true; do sudo ectool fanduty 100; sleep 3; done

Regards,

Toby C

Mike Frysinger

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Nov 2, 2016, 6:13:59 PM11/2/16

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if you have a problem with a device overheating, please file a bug at https://crbug.com/new. ectool's omission hasn't bricked anything.

-mike

Laine Gholson

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Nov 8, 2016, 6:58:34 PM11/8/16

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if you need ectool, then just emerge chromeos-base/ec-utils

this assumes you have run dev_install before, however

Leonardo santos rodrigues

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Dec 20, 2016, 10:11:01 PM12/20/16

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Em terça-feira, 8 de novembro de 2016 21:58:34 UTC-2, Laine Gholson escreveu:

if you need ectool, then just emerge chromeos-base/ec-utilsthis assumes you have run dev_install before, however

Can you please specify how i can get i to work ? my Toshiba 2 is making a lot of noise and sudo ectool isn't working anymore

Chang Liu

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Apr 18, 2017, 12:38:36 AM4/18/17

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hi,

i have got a chromebook pixel 2013, and when using ectool fanduty 30, to control fan speed, it stoped within several seconds, and the fan speed return normal. is there any other solution to this?

thanks

Getz Mikalsen

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Nov 17, 2018, 5:57:31 PM11/17/18

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Emerge doesnt work anymore, being tracked here, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=842039#

And yes, ectools omission has bricked some chromebook pixel 1 devices as they would overheat without the ectools command.

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