[LinuxBIOS] s2881 fan control

[Ward Vandewege]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:59:56PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Its probably some timer that counts there. This kind of thing almost
> requires having the datasheet sitting in another window or printed out
> next to you.

Right.

> > Also, I missed one byte that IS consistently different after a boot with the
> > proprietary BIOS:
> > 
> > 0000:01:04.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)
> > ...
> > -40: 80 f1 00 04 00 00 00 00 20 14 50 00 00 00 00 00
> > +40: 80 f1 00 07 00 00 00 00 20 14 50 00 00 00 00 00
> 
> Try the attached patch

That didn't help. 0x43 was still set to 04, and I could not set the fan
speed. There was a bracket missing from the patch, btw.

Suggestions?
Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator