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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:02:12 +0100
From:      Florian Huebner <florian@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Again about Dell Inspiron 8x00
Message-ID:  <200501111302.12876.florian@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050111095729.GB813@galgenberg.net>
References:  <200501021735.j02HZWAs017587@sana.init-main.com> <41E35EB6.8040306@root.org> <20050111095729.GB813@galgenberg.net>

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Hey folks!

I'm heavily using my Dell 8k6 with freebsd releng_5 only. At the moment I'm=
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not that in to ACPI stuff, but I played around a bit and was really=20
dissattisfied with some issues:=20
=46irst of all the thermal zones can't be configured as I would like to. It=
's=20
possible to give values to the _ACx syscons, but they won't affect anything=
=20
for it's not possible to toggle the active switch. This has the effect that=
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my fan turns on at about 38=B0C (way to early for a centrino) and - this is=
=20
worst - never stops. I'm not sure about acpi in this case. I often read abo=
ut
erroneous aml tables, dumped mine but couldn't read anything out of it.
S3 doesn't work here, too. At the moment it doesn't change anything at all =
if=20
I close the display (and by doing so press the switch). But it did before.=
=20
There were some problems with bringing back my XDesktop, but at least it di=
d=20
something. Is it possible to toggle this behaviour by syscon or anything=20
related?
I was told about a windows tool, I8KFANGUI (http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/),=
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which sounded to me like it was interesting to port or at least to look at.=
=20
But on the page it's said that the tool was allready ported to *BSD by Dami=
r=20
Lampa, the provided link is dead.
Where to start? I would like to put some time and code into that, but so fa=
r=20
didn't really get a got starting point ...=20

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Best regards
=46lorian H=FCbner


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