[ltp] in reference to you ibm-acpi changelog from Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:22:31 -0800

[Florian Trippel]

release 0.11 of ibm-acpi seems to work for t43p for the most part. But
still fan speed cannot be set. Switching off the fan is possible,
though.

On 6/20/05, Michael Ott <michael@zolnott.de> wrote:
> Hello D.!
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> Use the new one. Compile it by yourself. There are many changes until
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> > >Hello, which version is included in kernel 2.6.12, 0.8 or the newest 0=
.11?
> > >----- Original Nachricht ----
> > >>Hi Boris,
> > >>you asked people owning some newer models, the t43p for instance, to
> > >>get in touch with you. I am basically a very happy owner of one and I
> > >>wanted to start getting into linux. Unfortunately ibm does not supply
> > >>any native acpi driver for linux as they do for windows. I tried some
> > >>programs, like your ibm-acpi and several linux kernel, the
> > >>vanilla-2.6.12_rc3 and vanilla-2.6.12_rc6 with the new acpi patches
> > >>from acpi.sf.net on my gentoo, but neither of them worked for me. The
> > >>problem with acpi is, that the folder in /proc/acpi/fan is empty. Doe=
s
> > >>this have to do sth. with dtst as described in some posts? I got your
> > >>experimental fan control setting in ibm-acpi to work: fan can be
> > >>disabled and enabled, but i cannot pass a default option for fan with
> > >>modprobe, like i can for video option. I boot up and load ibm-acpi un=
d
> > >>cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan and it pretends to be off - though, it display=
s
> > >>a fan speed - but it is definitely on ;-).
> > >>I admit, I don't know anything useful about the topic acpi, but I
> > >>would be glad to see support for t43p in the next ibm-acpi release.
> > >>Let me know if i could help you with testing - please no tests that
> > >>could toast my thinkpad :-). In your readme you describe how to set
> > >>fan speed wiht some models through level 0..7 or speed. Do you think
> > >>sth. like that could be easy to implement on a t43p? I don't mind
> > >>setting fan speed manually. At the moment I am getting temperatures o=
f
> > >>86 C at most, when compiling some time, for instance. Is that normal?
> > >>Can I damage my thinkpad, when I do not enable acpi, so bios does
> > >>handle fan control? How does all this work? I would be glad, if you
> > >>could show me where to look to get this information.
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>  Michael
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