Re: laptop turns itself off

Bob McElrath
2002-07-30T16:27:46Z

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Éric Brunet [ebrunet-l5PIGlIYzrxGWvitb5QawA@public.gmane.org] wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:17:37PM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote:
> > I will let you know if I see the wild temperature variations you mention.
>
> Did you see them ?

No. Many crashes later, I've never seen the odd temperatures you
mention.

> > Right now ACPI does not recognize the fan on this laptop. Looking at my dsdt,
> > it seems that there is stuff in there about reading/writing the fan status.
> > Presumably if ACPI took control of the fan and temperature reading, the BIOS
> > would stop controlling it. For instance, with the omnibook tools above, as
>
> Maybe. I will try Bruno' patched dsdt. Or maybe I will try the bios
> update that toshiba europe proposes without any changelog.

I will probably try the patched dsdt next also. There is no bios update
for my computer. (It's bios is newer than the newest one on their web
site!) Maybe I should put a toshiba BIOS on it. I'm told my laptop is
equivalent to a Toshiba 3005-S304.

Also I was thinking to find the place in the acpi kernel code where it
is capable of turning the laptop off, and putting in a few debug
statements and a sync() so that it ends up in the logs. Can anyone
point me to that location in the code? ;)

Cheers,
-- Bob

Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath-9geRo0GdX4mkVGS65fRQmodd74u8MsAO@public.gmane.org)
Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics

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