Re: [acpi-jp 3001] RE: ACPI and Gateway 400sd4 laptop

From: Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:33:49 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Nate Lawson wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Sean Lazar wrote:
> > >> I have a Gateway 400SD4 laptop that I am having thermal issues with in
> > >> FreeBSD-CURRENT. The two-speed fan dosen't seem to come on. With ACPI on,
> > >> after the system has been running a little while and has warmed up, if I
> > >> turn off acpi with "acpiconf -d" the fan will kick on immediately. After
> > >> that the fan appears to behave normally, turning on and off when
> > >> necessary.
> > >> If the laptop boots warm with the fan on, it will shut off when it gets
> > >> cool but it won't come back on again.
> > >
> > >Output from sysctl hw.acpi would help.  You can also play with values from
> > >0-2 for hw.acpi.tz0.active.  That should manually turn the fan on at
> > >various speeds.
> > >
> > >-Nate
> >
> > very interesting, it dosen't want to turn on the fan:
> >
> > freebsd-5_2# sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active=0
> > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1 -> -1
>
> Your ASL has something strange.  Your ThermalZone has an _INI method.
>
> Try the following patch:

Just looked again and the patch won't help your particular problem.  It
only would affect the _PSV methods which we don't implement yet.  I'm
wondering if your EC is being set up correctly.  Can you do a boot -v and
then dmesg > out and send that?  Also, does battery status work ok?

-Nate
Received on Fri Jan 16 2004 - 09:33:55 UTC

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