Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.

[Nikolas Britton]

Nikolas Britton wrote:

> Nikolas Britton wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have a Compaq Armada 1750 laptop and ACPI is some what broken. If I 
>> enable ACPI the fan will never run causing the system to overheat and 
>> shutdown, there are a few other problems with ACPI but this is the 
>> major one. This is a standard 440BX/MX chipset (82443BX) so I don't 
>> understand why this doesn't work yet with FreeBSD, Is this a problem 
>> with my DSDT/AML/ASL whatever? The work around in the bug report I 
>> submitted ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/72566 ) 
>> does not work if the system is below the hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx 
>> threshold, if it is below this threshold at system boot the fan will 
>> NEVER turn on even if hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active=1 is set in 
>> loader.conf.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated on ether fixing this problem or a way 
>> to use ACPI but disable the thermal monitoring so the system can 
>> control the fan?
>>
>> Also... in the bug report there is a link to a Linux kernel patch 
>> that fixes this problem.
>>
>>
> Also is it not possible to just extract the AML code from that patch 
> an use it to make a FreeBSD patch? I don't know as I'm not a 
> programmer and I'm not sure of GPL issues


Sorry for the third reply to my own post but I thought this might help, 
it is a copy of my asl code:
http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/compaq/armada_17xx.asl

I updated the bug report as well and I'm going to cross post this in 
freebsd-acpi mailing list.