Re: help needed: X61 fan control, and 2nd?fan?control

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On Tue, 02 Jun 2009, Christoph Klünter wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 June 2009 01:01:14 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 01 Jun 2009, Christoph Klünter wrote:
> > > I tried again with
> > >   echo "0x31 0x01" > ecdump
> > > But nothing changed either.
> >
> > Does the tacometer readings change when you switch from the primary to
> > the secondary fan, and back?  That would at least confirm we are seing
> > different fans.
> Yes, they do differ. I watched /proc/acpi/ibm/fan and when echoing
> 0x01 I saw 2000RPM and with 0x00 I saw 4000RPM.
> I switched back and forth some times. I have no doubt this were
> the RPMs of two different fans.
> >
> > It is especially interesting if you can do it while one of the fans is
> > stopped and the other is running, as it leaves no room for doubts.
> >
> > > Still both fans can be switched off.
> But they both stop when echoing "disabled" > fan.
> No matter what is written to ecdump
> >
> > At the same time, or independently?
> At the same time

Thank you.  So we have two tachometers, but only one PWM control.  I will
try to get this functionality ready for 2.6.31.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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