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

[D. Sen]

0.8

Jens Westphalen wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> 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,
>>
>>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 ;-).
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Greetz,
>>Florian
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