Re: [ACPI-sppt] Who controls cpu fan (Asus M2N) ?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> >
> > Hard to answer.  Is your fan controlled via ACPI ?  If not, then
> > there is good chance that, especially if your laptop is new, that
> > the FAN is controlled by the EC.
> > On old hardware, it is more likely to be controlled via the host smbus.
> > I cant, without looking your dsdt, tell more.
> 
> So is there a guide to translating a DSDT into some human friendly format?
> Kind of a DSDT for Idiots?  Cause i'd like to be able to understand what
> mine does, and i know zero about it.
> 

Sorry, I know only
http://www.acpi.info/
but if you have questions about especially dsdt (well more specifically
ASL and how it should represent devices), do not hesitate to write
to me.  There are some slides also on that site, but they seems to
be a little old though.

-- 
Ducrot Bruno

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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