Again about Dell Inspiron 8x00

[Florian Huebner]

Hey folks!

I'm heavily using my Dell 8k6 with freebsd releng_5 only. At the moment I'm 
not that in to ACPI stuff, but I played around a bit and was really 
dissattisfied with some issues: 
First of all the thermal zones can't be configured as I would like to. It's 
possible to give values to the _ACx syscons, but they won't affect anything 
for it's not possible to toggle the active switch. This has the effect that 
my fan turns on at about 38°C (way to early for a centrino) and - this is 
worst - never stops. I'm not sure about acpi in this case. I often read about
erroneous aml tables, dumped mine but couldn't read anything out of it.
S3 doesn't work here, too. At the moment it doesn't change anything at all if 
I close the display (and by doing so press the switch). But it did before. 
There were some problems with bringing back my XDesktop, but at least it did 
something. Is it possible to toggle this behaviour by syscon or anything 
related?
I was told about a windows tool, I8KFANGUI (http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/), 
which sounded to me like it was interesting to port or at least to look at. 
But on the page it's said that the tool was allready ported to *BSD by Damir 
Lampa, the provided link is dead.
Where to start? I would like to put some time and code into that, but so far 
didn't really get a got starting point ... 

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Best regards
Florian Hübner


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