Re: patch for toshiba acpi

Mark Sergeant <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization SNSOnline Technical Services
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have just one other observation, I found a funky tool a while back
called toshctl, it has the following...

bios.date: 1026309600
bios.id: 64615
bios.version: 2.00   TOSHIBA 
hci.cpu_speed: 1
hci.fan: 1
hci.lcd.backlight: 1
hci.lcd.brightness: 7
hci.lcd.mode: 2
hci.lcd.type: 4
hci.power_source: 1
hci.select_bay: 4
hci.software_suspend: 1

If you haven't looked at it it's definantly a worthwhile tool.

Cheers,

Mark

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:57, Scott Lambert wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:34:25PM -0500, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > I finally got the lcd brightness control and force-fan to work on a
> > toshiba 2455 on FreeBSD 5.1. If anybody is interested, you can find the
> > patch at http://linux.imp.mx/toshiba/
> > 
> > In to use it, apply patch and recompile acpi.ko module and copy to
> > /boot/kernel. Once rebooted, sysctl will see two new variables:
> > hw.acpi.toshiba.lcd_brightness
> > hw.acpi.toshiba.force_fan
> > 
> > lcd_brightness has eight values (0-7) and force fan two values (0-1).
> > 
> > Finally I can dim the screen and get rid of this headache...
> 
> This is REALLY REALLY REALLY cool.  No, I mean literally, this laptop, a
> Satellite 2805-S201, is now cool.
> 
> By forcing the fan on, I've lowered the temperature by more than 12K.
> That makes it cool enough that my leg doesn't think its on a spit above
> a barbeque pit.
> 
> Before forcing the fan on:
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 3282
> 
> After forcing the fan on it seems to have stablized around:
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 3162
> 
> ./acpi_temp
> System temperature = 316.2 K  43.0 C  109.4
> 
> It was 315.2K before I started Opera.
> 
> 5 minutes later:
> ./acpi_temp 
> System temperature = 311.2 K  38.0 C  100.4 F
> 
> I've also set the LCD brightness to 0.  It's not a dramatic effect but
> it *is* somewhat less bright than it is at 7.
> 
> Thank you for doing this Mr. Garcia.  
> 
> Mr. Lawson, is it possible this patch could find it's way into the base
> tree someday?
-- 
Mark Sergeant <[email protected]>
SNSOnline Technical Services
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