Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:43:07 -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: <41C81A5B.9020301@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <41C81621.50906@nbritton.org> References: <41C81621.50906@nbritton.org>
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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
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