Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755567AbZKTHeY (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:34:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755264AbZKTHeY (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:34:24 -0500 Received: from zbasel.fortytwo.ch ([193.138.215.60]:43116 "EHLO zbasel.fortytwo.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752286AbZKTHeX (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:34:23 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 454 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:34:23 EST From: Adrian von Bidder To: Peter Feuerer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: acerhdf: stilll fighting between kernel and BIOS? Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:23:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-1-686; KDE/4.3.2; i686; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2460158.9NKtNMPYko"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911200823.58897@fortytwo.ch> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2103 Lines: 62 --nextPart2460158.9NKtNMPYko Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Heyho! With 2.6.31 (as packaged by Debian), kernel and BIOS are still fighting ove= r=20 who controls the fan on my Acer AOA-150. If the system is idle, I see repeated=20 Nov 20 08:07:12 laeggerli kernel: [100246.224141] acerhdf: temp 51 =20 Nov 20 08:07:12 laeggerli kernel: [100246.272136] acerhdf: fan OFF =20 Nov 20 08:07:22 laeggerli kernel: [100256.328145] acerhdf: temp 51 =20 Nov 20 08:07:22 laeggerli kernel: [100256.376072] acerhdf: fan OFF =20 (and the fan is turned on and off accordingly, using a rather noisy speed=20 for ca. .5s every time.) As soon as the system gets a bit warmer, fan is running on low speed and th= e=20 system is much quieter. ISTR reading that this should have been fixed in 2.6.31, or was that wrong?= =20 Did anything change in current kernels or the separate releases of the=20 acerhdf driver? I might be able to run newer driver releases, or at least = I=20 can provide more info if desired (and if you're patient to deal with quite= =20 slow round trip times from my side. It's not an urgent problem either.) cheers =2D- vbi =2D-=20 featured product: ClamAV Antivirus - http://www.clamav.net/ --nextPart2460158.9NKtNMPYko Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: get my key from http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481 iKcEABECAGcFAksGRAdgGmh0dHA6Ly9mb3J0eXR3by5jaC9sZWdhbC9ncGcvZW1h aWwuMjAwMjA4MjI/dmVyc2lvbj0xLjUmbWQ1c3VtPTVkZmY4NjhkMTE4NDMyNzYw NzFiMjVlYjcwMDZkYTNlAAoJECqqZti935l6494An0HEvc08B/J49b9zyf3lHFF2 R8wsAJ4zdaidiSSV91LZrIFpeVNSM65WRQ== =79Dg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2460158.9NKtNMPYko-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/