From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Michael Zintakis <michael.zintakis@googlemail.com>
Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Fintek f71882fg ACPI conflict
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:57:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120628185712.GA20159@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FEC96B7.50500@googlemail.com>
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 06:39:03PM +0100, Michael Zintakis wrote:
[ ... ]
> >Problem is most likely that the BIOS does not "kick-start" the fan(s),
> >and the chip does not have a register to set a "start fan" pwm value (other
> >chips such as the NCT677X do have a register for that purpose).
> Yep, that seems to be the case indeed.
>
> > So you may
> >be stuck with your manual method if you want to keep the fan running at speeds
> >lower than pwm=190.
> Would it be possible for such feature to be implemented in the
> f71882fg driver? Most of the stuff which is done with my bash script
> will be very easy to implement in the driver as it involves nothing
> more than playing with the registry values and adding a bit of logic
> to it. Would that be possible?
>
No, that is not in the scope of a kernel driver. You could use fancontrol(8),
but that would mean you have to switch to manual fan control (from chip
perspective).
Guenter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-28 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4FEA4C10.2060904@googlemail.com>
2012-06-27 17:15 ` Fintek f71882fg ACPI conflict Guenter Roeck
2012-06-27 23:00 ` [lm-sensors] " Michael Zintakis
2012-06-28 1:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-06-28 11:15 ` Michael Zintakis
2012-06-28 12:40 ` Jean Delvare
2012-06-28 12:53 ` Michael Zintakis
2012-06-28 13:27 ` Jean Delvare
2012-06-29 5:35 ` Robert Hancock
2012-06-29 12:11 ` Michael Zintakis
2012-06-29 16:34 ` Guenter Roeck
2012-06-28 5:20 ` Guenter Roeck
2012-06-28 11:31 ` Michael Zintakis
2012-06-28 17:12 ` Guenter Roeck
2012-06-28 17:39 ` Michael Zintakis
2012-06-28 18:57 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
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