Re: no fan detected

[Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>]

martin schneebacher wrote:
> On 2/13/07, martin schneebacher <martin.schneebacher@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2/13/07, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> wrote:
>> > Did /proc/acpi/fan have any contents with any previous version of 
>> Linux?
>> > If so, what version and what was there?
>
> i tried with 2.6.12.6, which was the first one on this machine. but
> without success.
>
Good chance your BIOS vendor did not export control of the fun to userspace.
> the fans are running up and down acording to the temperature, but i
> have no control in /proc nor any info about their state.
>
So you don't need to have control too.
You could look at your DSDT, it is in /proc/dsdt. it is possible to 
disassemble it with "iasl" which should
be available either in repository of the packages for your Linux version,
or as part of acpica-unix, available at www.intel.com.
Look for a device with id from /drivers/acpi/fun.c file (PNP*).
If such a device exists, then we should deliver it to you as 
/proc/acpi/fun/name.
> bye...masc.
> -

Regards,
    Alex.