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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:48:50 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.hda.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fan speed control sony vaio lx800 slimtop 
Message-ID:  <200101102148.f0ALmog00877@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:41:31 EST." <200101101542.f0AFg8n15964@hda.hda.com> 

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> Note that there are no \_TZ_ entries in that "vaiolx800.asl" dump
> that I submitted for the ACPI collection.  I'm not sure where that
> collection is - I don't see it off www.jp.freebsd.org/acpi, if
> anyone wants to see that .asl file I can put it somewhere public.

Is there a thermal zone *anywhere* (ACPI 2.0 moves it into _SB_, for 
example).

> Would I have to do anything special to see it? If anyone has any
> other ideas of what to do let me know - I'm wondering if throttling
> down the CPU turns down the fan.

It's possible that the EC is solely responsible for the fan, or that 
Sony decided in their infinite wisdom to do it all in a driver somewhere.

-- 
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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