Bug#259481: ACPI Turns Off Fan, Allowing Overheating

[Daniel Burton <dan@spaz.org>]

Here's the dsdt.aml, but I don't seem to have the iasl command, and I 
can't find any packages that have it.

Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:

> severity 259481 normal
> thanks
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:04:14PM -0700, Daniel Burton wrote:
>  
>
> > Package: kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686
> > Version: 2.6.7-2
> > Severity: important
> > File: kernel-image-2.6.7
> >
> > As soon as I boot up and ACPI loads, the fan on my laptop turns off, 
> > allowing it to overheat.  This is a Compaq Evo N620c.  It also does this 
> > in kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686.  I can't produce a boot log, because the 
> > overheating happens so fast that it literally won't boot up again 
> > afterwards (the automatic safety mechanisms kick in and shut it down), 
> > and I don't want to damage the hardware.
> >
> > I'll try to see if I can change the BIOS settings to override the 
> > the fan state and get a boot log.
> >
> >    
>
> Unfortunately there are tons of laptops with buggy bios out there.
> Compaq ones do not appear particularly brilliant on this regards. 
>
> First of all, load acpi package and run acpi -t, this could 
> activate the fan. Unfortunately it should probably stay on
> forever in this manner.
>
> Please provide a DSDT dump of your box
>
> cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > dsdt.aml 
> iasl -d dsdt.aml > dsdt.asl
>
> That's the possibility that it needs hacking to work.

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