Re: Re: [ACPI] Compaq Armada 1500c

[Florian S. <flo...@we...>]

"Florian Schilhabel" <flo...@we...> schrieb am 10.04.03 13:17:20:
> hi everyone,
> 
> short summary of ACPI on Compaq Armada 1500c:
> with help of herbert nachtnebel,( thanks for your dsdt's), i finally managed to
> disassemble and recompile my dsdt; ( 0 errors, 0 warnings, etc.pp )
> result:
> /proc/acpi is now much more populated than before... ;-))
> still weird are the entries in thermal_zone/.../trip_points;
> of course, currently i'm running on 2.4.20 ( + ACPI ) - the problem might be here;
> will update asap;
> 
> i still have a problem with FAN CONTROL...
> i DO have 2 entries in /proc/acpi/fan;
> along with a state file.
> cat state gives me a "on", indicating, that the fan is running - this is _NOT_ true
> there is also no possibility to switch manually to off and back to on;
> battery status is now great, with one problem left:
> during system boot, the correct battery status is recognized ( for example 2 batteries available )
> if i pull out on battery, the acpi system still indicates 2 available batteries,
> of course the voltage indicator goes down to zero - good, it's no battery in the bay.
> but - system says, battery is still available; so there's no update at runtime here...
> during system boot with ONE battery, the second one is _never_ recognized. - too bad;
> 
> nevertheless, at least a cat temperature seems to give me the correct values for CPU temp;
> at least, if i stress the CPU, the temp rises, when idle temp goes down.
> so there's a way for me to shut down the system, if the CPU should become too hot ;-))
> 
> i think, someone's written a FAN-control patch; i just can't find it in mail-archive;
> would anyone please be so kind to send it to me ???
> thanks a lot....
> 
> at last:
> if nothing helps, my final solution is to cut the wires to the fan and solder it to
> voltage supply of my fdd drive - *;-))
> although i have a little coding experience, i do not have enough time to solve that problem, sorry...
> but: if someone of the coders is interested in that problem, i can give you all the needed information...
> 
> ------
> 
> and: if you can't code it, you have to solder it... ;-))
> 
> greetings
> 
> florian
> 
> 


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