Re: IBM Thinkpad Fan Control (acpi_ibm)

Markus Brueffer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tobias Roth schrieb:

> > Now my question. Since acpi_ibm.ko can already read temperature
> > sensors and fan speed, would it be feasable to teach it to control
> > fan speed as well? Is anyone working on it already? Or can someone
> > outline the steps that have to be taken so I can take a look and  
> > see if I can do it myself?
> 
> I didn't see any practical value in setting fancontrol and fanspeed
> last year (that was the time when the T43 wasn't yet around),
> therefore I didn't implement write support to prevent users from
> footshooting.
> 
> Now that there is a real practical use of it, I have implemented the
> missing bits.
 
> Please try the patch at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~markus/ibm/acpi_ibm.c.diff
> 
> It should apply cleanly on -CURRENT and 6.0 and works nicely on my
> T41p.

I can confirm that it applies cleanly on 6.0.
Fan speed setting works on my TP51 as well. Thanks.

Fabian
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http://www.fabiankeil.de/

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