From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 21 13:35:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157A516A4CE; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:35:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E2B43D1F; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:35:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20041221133453i9100rg06re>; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:34:59 +0000 Message-ID: <41C8267B.2050106@nbritton.org> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:34:51 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041219) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton References: <41C81621.50906@nbritton.org> <41C81A5B.9020301@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <41C81A5B.9020301@nbritton.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:35:01 -0000 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.