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

[Florian Trippel]

ibm-acpi compiles correctly for me, for both 2.6.12_rc3 and
2.6.12_rc6. Maybe use one of these. It is important not to enable the
ibm-extras in kernel section acpi/apm, since AFAIK it is an old
implementation of the module you are just about to load. The module
loads cleanly here and I can use every of the announced functions. But
still I am missing fan speed configuration :-).

On 6/20/05, D. Sen <dsen@ieee.org> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
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> I tried to use 0.11. The module fails to load however with the following
> message:
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> Jun 20 22:20:42 localhost kernel: ibm_acpi:
> acpi_install_notify_handler(hotkey) failed: 7
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> I am using kernel 2.6.12.
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> Cheers,
> DS
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> 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. 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.
> >
> >
> > CU
> >
> >   Michael
> >
> > --
> >            Michael Ott, e-mail: michael@zolnott.de, www.zolnott.de
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