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

[D. Sen]

Hi Michael,

I tried to use 0.11. The module fails to load however with the following 
message:

Jun 20 22:20:42 localhost kernel: ibm_acpi: 
acpi_install_notify_handler(hotkey) failed: 7

I am using kernel 2.6.12.

Cheers,
DS

Michael Ott wrote:
> Hello D.!
> 
> 
>>0.8
> 
> Use the new one. Compile it by yourself. There are many changes until
> 0.8
> 
> 
>>>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. 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.
> 
> 
> CU        
>          
>   Michael  
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