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

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:27:03PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 07/03/03 11:00, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Well, i'm seeing rather odd stuff in /proc/acpi on my Sharp MV12W 
> running 2.4.21-pre2 (with the built in acpi support).  For example, in 
> /proc/acpi/battery i have:
> # ls -l
> total 0
> dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jul  4 22:23 0
> dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jul  4 22:23 0
> 
> 
> I've uploaded my /proc/acpi/dsdt here if someone could guide me on 
> whether it needs to be tweaked:
> http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/dsdt.out
> 

Ok....  Well well well.  Bad news... Your DSDT is (ahem) so stupidly
written that if I was one of the boss of the Sharp BIOS department
I will certainly fire the guy who has done that horror.

Rewritten it will be then really time consuming.  Do not expect that
I can rewrite it really fast, sorry, but I will give it a try though.

Cheers,


-- 
Ducrot Bruno

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


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