laptop got hot, no fans! (acpi tools to check fans/temp/battery?)

[Mr. Adam ALLEN]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:17, Laur Ivan wrote:

> afaik, Dell is known for bad DSDT's. A solution is to have a look at the acpi 
> project on sourceforge for fixed DSDTs. They have a small howto on convincing 
> the kernel to load your patched acpi image instead of the system one.
> 
> another thing would be to look in your /proc/acpi to check out if you have a 
> subdir "battery". if not try the following:
> modprobe battery
> modprobe ac
> modprobe processor (in fact, you should load all the modules in 
> /lib/modules/2.6_blah/kernel/drivers/acpi :) as they are not loaded by the 
> "acpid" in startup.
> 
> Then everything should work ok. I have an X200 and had loads of fun with this 
> over the w/end :) (not).
> 

/proc/acpi was missing the battery,fan etc so I made a few modprobes and
started re-compiling the kernel again. Still no fans.

I'll stick with the noacpi for now, and investigate the acpi  project on
sourceforge.

-- 
Regards,
Adam Allen.

adam at dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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