Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:33:49 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Sean Lazar <slazar@cruzio.com> Cc: acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [acpi-jp 3001] RE: ACPI and Gateway 400sd4 laptop Message-ID: <20040116103217.R76645@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20040116101908.H76561@root.org> References: <006301c3d67d$66285080$6401a8c0@seano> <20040116101908.H76561@root.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040116103217.R76645>