Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:29:58 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: Markus Brueffer <markus@brueffer.de> Cc: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad Fan Control (acpi_ibm) Message-ID: <20060112182958.20cdb395@localhost> In-Reply-To: <43C659A5.7080904@brueffer.de> References: <20060110175214.GA2519@droopy.unibe.ch> <43C659A5.7080904@brueffer.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Markus Brueffer <markus@brueffer.de> wrote: > Tobias Roth schrieb: > > Now my question. Since acpi_ibm.ko can already read temperature > > sensors and fan speed, would it be feasable to teach it to control > > fan speed as well? Is anyone working on it already? Or can someone > > outline the steps that have to be taken so I can take a look and > > see if I can do it myself? > > I didn't see any practical value in setting fancontrol and fanspeed > last year (that was the time when the T43 wasn't yet around), > therefore I didn't implement write support to prevent users from > footshooting. > > Now that there is a real practical use of it, I have implemented the > missing bits. > Please try the patch at > http://people.freebsd.org/~markus/ibm/acpi_ibm.c.diff > > It should apply cleanly on -CURRENT and 6.0 and works nicely on my > T41p. I can confirm that it applies cleanly on 6.0. Fan speed setting works on my TP51 as well. Thanks. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDxpIbjV8GA4rMKUQRAgtGAKCxP2ol0Zi7wdOS2iduDD+dPmJmxgCdFq80 pMSvKOnjgR6fTRUt8TEGqJk= =OgkO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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