Re: [ACPI-sppt] I think it's patched...

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:16:43AM +0200, Sebastian Henschel wrote:
> my fan is always on a slow rotation and reasonably quiet (though never
> off). so it is quite possible that you will not get it any better,

Hmm. It was off almost all the time when I was using the wrong patch that
ships with debian's 2.4.20 kernel: 20011018.

> because it is a hardware problem (if i remember correctly, it is also never
> off in win*). otherwise you can learn how to hack DSDTs and, if you are
> lucky, can really turn it off. though i am definitely no expert at this.

It's the opposite for me. My fan was always *off* in windows.

> > I've loaded them like this: Should I be loading them in a different order, 
> > or is this ok?
> 
> the order is imho unimportant.

ok.
 
> > The rest were all compiled in using "Y" instead of "M". I still don't
> > understand why they're not ospm_*. Does anyone else know why this is?
> 
> i do not know when this switch happened, but i had never used any
> ospm-stuff, neither ospmd, nor ospm-modules. the modules are supposedly
> deprecated and i dunno for the daemon, use acpid instead. :)

Ok.

> p.s.: you still think about the HOWTO, do you? :)

I'm working on it today. :) I'll send the URL through to the list when
this draft is done.

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