From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ducrot Bruno Subject: Re: Acer 233xc dsdt table broken? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:45:52 +0200 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20030618134552.GG19556@poupinou.org> References: <1055928971.2970.14.camel@corsair> <20030618112942.GF19556@poupinou.org> <1055936497.3844.7.camel@corsair> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1055936497.3844.7.camel-M1jtaS7+WsY@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Ville =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E4tsi?= Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:41:37PM +0300, Ville Pätsi wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 14:29, Ducrot Bruno wrote: > > > http://mail.ramk.fi/~drc/dsdt-acer-233xc.dsl.gz > > > > A quick look at this asl show no support for S1 and there is > > no FAN device as well. > > Odd considering that sleep works in windows. Maybe it's using S3 there? Yes. > > I just had an odd event where the temperature meter didn't seem to work > (in was stuck at 23C). > The fan reacted like this was actually the case, > and the cpu heated to 80C, where the system shut down. After I restarted > the system the meter worked again, and the temperature was at 70C and > the fan was at full speed. The fan slowed down at two points, until the > cpu reached 50C, so seems it works properly. So maybe the fan isn't acpi > controlled? > The ASL show that all temperature related functionality are in the embedded controller. This is certainly a micro controller with his own firmware and will perform all fan related actions (amongst others things). There is maybe a bug in the firmware for this IC, since the temperature was stuck. You should complaint to ACER (this is certainly reproducible under Windows). Cheers, -- Ducrot Bruno -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php