Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:30:04 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Sean Lazar <slazar@cruzio.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI and Gateway 400sd4 laptop Message-ID: <20040106151852.Q27817@root.org>
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> 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
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