If you could open a bugreport at bugzilla.kernel.org in ACPI category and attach dmesg and acpidump output, that would help a lot. (I hope :( )
Thanks, Alex. Daniel Ritz wrote: > On Wednesday 29 August 2007 06:41:41 Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > >> Daniel, >> Does this patch help you, or do we need to revert the whole thing? >> >> > > yes, this does the trick. the fan goes on again. thanks. > if you still need additional debug output or if you want me to test > a different patch just let me know. > > rgds > -daniel > > >> Sorry for the trouble, >> Alex. >> Daniel Ritz wrote: >> >>> tried that one on my old toshiba tecra 8000 laptop, almost killing it. >>> the fan doesn't work any more...type 'make' and see the box dying. >>> luckily my CPU doesn't commit suicide...bisected it to that one: >>> >>> cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b is first bad commit >>> commit cd8c93a4e04dce8f00d1ef3a476aac8bd65ae40b >>> Author: Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Fri Aug 3 17:52:48 2007 -0400 >>> >>> ACPI: EC: If ECDT is not found, look up EC in DSDT. >>> >>> Some ASUS laptops access EC space from device _INI methods, but do not >>> provide ECDT for early EC setup. In order to make them function >>> properly, >>> there is a need to find EC is DSDT before any _INI is called. >>> >>> Similar functionality was turned on by acpi_fake_ecdt=1 command line >>> before. Now it is on all the time. >>> >>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8598 >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/