Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:34:51 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken. Message-ID: <41C8267B.2050106@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <41C81A5B.9020301@nbritton.org> References: <41C81621.50906@nbritton.org> <41C81A5B.9020301@nbritton.org>
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Nikolas Britton wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> Hello, >> I have a Compaq Armada 1750 laptop and ACPI is some what broken. If I >> enable ACPI the fan will never run causing the system to overheat and >> shutdown, there are a few other problems with ACPI but this is the >> major one. This is a standard 440BX/MX chipset (82443BX) so I don't >> understand why this doesn't work yet with FreeBSD, Is this a problem >> with my DSDT/AML/ASL whatever? The work around in the bug report I >> submitted ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/72566 ) >> does not work if the system is below the hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx >> threshold, if it is below this threshold at system boot the fan will >> NEVER turn on even if hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active=1 is set in >> loader.conf. >> >> Any help would be appreciated on ether fixing this problem or a way >> to use ACPI but disable the thermal monitoring so the system can >> control the fan? >> >> Also... in the bug report there is a link to a Linux kernel patch >> that fixes this problem. >> >> > Also is it not possible to just extract the AML code from that patch > an use it to make a FreeBSD patch? I don't know as I'm not a > programmer and I'm not sure of GPL issues Sorry for the third reply to my own post but I thought this might help, it is a copy of my asl code: http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/compaq/armada_17xx.asl I updated the bug report as well and I'm going to cross post this in freebsd-acpi mailing list.
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