If you could open a bugreport at bugzilla.kernel.org in ACPI category
and attach
dmesg and acpidump output, that would help a lot. (I hope :( )
Thanks,
Alex.
Daniel Ritz wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 August 2007 06:41:41 Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>
>> Daniel,
>> Does this patch help you, or do we need to revert the whole thing?
>>
>>
>
> yes, this does the trick. the fan goes on again. thanks.
> if you still need additional debug output or if you want me to test
> a different patch just let me know.
>
> rgds
> -daniel
>
>
>> Sorry for the trouble,
>> Alex.
>> Daniel Ritz wrote:
>>
>>> tried that one on my old toshiba tecra 8000 laptop, almost killing it.
>>> the fan doesn't work any more...type 'make' and see the box dying.
>>> luckily my CPU doesn't commit suicide...bisected it to that one:
>>>
>>> cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b is first bad commit
>>> commit cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b
>>> Author: Alexey Starikovskiy <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Fri Aug 3 17:52:48 2007 -0400
>>>
>>> ACPI: EC: If ECDT is not found, look up EC in DSDT.
>>>
>>> Some ASUS laptops access EC space from device _INI methods, but do not
>>> provide ECDT for early EC setup. In order to make them function properly,
>>> there is a need to find EC is DSDT before any _INI is called.
>>>
>>> Similar functionality was turned on by acpi_fake_ecdt=1 command line
>>> before. Now it is on all the time.
>>>
>>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8598
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <[email protected]>
>>> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
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