Re: [ACPI] latest patch (20020329) on Gericom M6-T

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Hi Dominik, Sean, List!
I experience the same problem with the fan controlling as Sean mentioned, even
with acpi_processor and acpi_thermal loaded!

Stephan
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 22:35:40 +0200, Sean Bergmann said:

> Hello, Dominik.
>  
>  I just tried echo -n 3 and echo -n 0 to /proc/acpi/fan/FAN/state.
>  3 just lowers the fans speed a bit, so its less noisy then.
>  0 works fine and the fan becomes its default speed and noisy but theres no way to turn it off completly. (I haven't loaded acpi_processor and acpi_thermal, maybe it has something to do with it?)
>  
>  Sean Bergmann
>  se...@az...
>  http://sean.azeroth.org
>  
>  On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:17:44 +0200
>  Dominik Brodowski <de...@br...> wrote:
>  
>  > Hi Stephan,
>  > 
>  > > - Thermal has no effect on the fan now (well ok, this did not work
>  > > correctly with the old Patch)
>  > ...
>  > > 2) can i switch on/off the fan manually now? (eg. from a program which
>  > > checks temperature)
>  > >     can i change the speed of the fan?
>  > >     or does it work automatically from thermal-zone
>  > Well, it should work automatically. Is the fan exposed in the /proc/acpi 
>  > tree, e.g. is there a directory /proc/acpi/fan/.../ ? Then you can switch it 
>  > on/off manually, "echo -n 3 > /proc/acpi/fan/.../state" turns it off, and 
>  > "echo -n 0 >" turns it on.
>  > 
>  > > 3) cpu throttling means, slowering the cpu? When is this done, can i do
>  > > this manually (or should i)?
>  > Yes, throttling means slowing the CPU down. It's done automatically (or at 
>  > least it should be done) when the system gets dangerously hot. You can turn 
>  > it on manually, e.g. by setting a limit ("echo -n 0:x > 
>  > /proc/acpi/processor/.../limit" with x being the throttling state you want) 
>  > when you want to prolong the battery power-supply.
>  > 
>  > Dominik
>  > 
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