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

[Jens Westphalen]

Hello,=20

which version is included in kernel 2.6.12, 0.8 or the newest 0.11?

Greetz,
Jens

----- Original Nachricht ----
Von:     Florian Trippel <florian.trippel@gmail.com>
An:      linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Datum:   18.06.2005 02:41
Betreff: [ltp] in reference to you ibm-acpi changelog from Thu, 17 Mar 2005=
 03:22:31 -0800

> Hi Boris,
>=20
> 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. Does
> 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 und
> cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan and it pretends to be off - though, it displays
> a fan speed - but it is definitely on ;-).
>=20
> 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 of
> 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.
>=20
> Greetz,
> Florian
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>=20

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