From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 15:30:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4177316A505 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:30:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from root.org (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAC0243D5D for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:30:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: (qmail 27921 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Jan 2004 23:30:04 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:30:04 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Sean Lazar Message-ID: <20040106151852.Q27817@root.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI and Gateway 400sd4 laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 23:30:33 -0000 > 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