diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt | 85 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 60 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt index cdcef016907..f409f4bbdc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt @@ -1,16 +1,17 @@ IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver - Version 0.12 - 17 August 2005 + Version 0.13 + 31 December 2006 Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sf.net> + Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/ This is a Linux ACPI driver for the IBM ThinkPad laptops. It supports various features of these laptops which are accessible through the -ACPI framework but not otherwise supported by the generic Linux ACPI -drivers. +ACPI framework but not otherwise fully supported by the generic Linux +ACPI drivers. Status @@ -638,6 +639,26 @@ The ThinkPad's ACPI DSDT code will reprogram the fan on its own when certain conditions are met. It will override any fan programming done through ibm-acpi. +The ibm-acpi kernel driver can be programmed to revert the fan level +to a safe setting if userspace does not issue one of the fan commands: +"enable", "disable", "level" or "watchdog" within a configurable +ammount of time. To do this, use the "watchdog" command. + + echo 'watchdog <interval>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan + +Interval is the ammount of time in seconds to wait for one of the +above mentioned fan commands before reseting the fan level to a safe +one. If set to zero, the watchdog is disabled (default). When the +watchdog timer runs out, it does the exact equivalent of the "enable" +fan command. + +Note that the watchdog timer stops after it enables the fan. It will +be rearmed again automatically (using the same interval) when one of +the above mentioned fan commands is received. The fan watchdog is, +therefore, not suitable to protect against fan mode changes made +through means other than the "enable", "disable", and "level" fan +commands. + EXPERIMENTAL: WAN -- /proc/acpi/ibm/wan --------------------------------------- @@ -670,59 +691,3 @@ example: modprobe ibm_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffff video=auto_disable -The ibm-acpi kernel driver can be programmed to revert the fan level -to a safe setting if userspace does not issue one of the fan commands: -"enable", "disable", "level" or "watchdog" within a configurable -ammount of time. To do this, use the "watchdog" command. - - echo 'watchdog <interval>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan - -Interval is the ammount of time in seconds to wait for one of the -above mentioned fan commands before reseting the fan level to a safe -one. If set to zero, the watchdog is disabled (default). When the -watchdog timer runs out, it does the exact equivalent of the "enable" -fan command. - -Note that the watchdog timer stops after it enables the fan. It will -be rearmed again automatically (using the same interval) when one of -the above mentioned fan commands is received. The fan watchdog is, -therefore, not suitable to protect against fan mode changes made -through means other than the "enable", "disable", and "level" fan -commands. - - -Example Configuration ---------------------- - -The ACPI support in the kernel is intended to be used in conjunction -with a user-space daemon, acpid. The configuration files for this -daemon control what actions are taken in response to various ACPI -events. An example set of configuration files are included in the -config/ directory of the tarball package available on the web -site. Note that these are provided for illustration purposes only and -may need to be adapted to your particular setup. - -The following utility scripts are used by the example action -scripts (included with ibm-acpi for completeness): - - /usr/local/sbin/idectl -- from the hdparm source distribution, - see http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/hardware - /usr/local/sbin/laptop_mode -- from the Linux kernel source - distribution, see Documentation/laptop-mode.txt - /sbin/service -- comes with Redhat/Fedora distributions - /usr/sbin/hibernate -- from the Software Suspend 2 distribution, - see http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/ - -Toan T Nguyen <ntt@physics.ucla.edu> notes that Suse uses the -powersave program to suspend ('powersave --suspend-to-ram') or -hibernate ('powersave --suspend-to-disk'). This means that the -hibernate script is not needed on that distribution. - -Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org> has written a Gentoo ACPI event -handler script for the X31. You can get the latest version from -http://dev.gentoo.org/~brix/files/x31.sh - -David Schweikert <dws@ee.eth.ch> has written an alternative blank.sh -script which works on Debian systems. This scripts has now been -extended to also work on Fedora systems and included as the default -blank.sh in the distribution. |