A user reported a fan control problem with the Fujitsu Amilo L1310G in the forums, here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=232756 The symptoms as he described them are that the system boots up with the fan spinning, but when he does anything to load the CPU, instead of spinning up faster, the fan cuts out entirely. Investigating this led me to rather a tangle of other reports... there's an Arch Linux thread discussing a similar issue here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53702 Googling the DSDT link from that thread - http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13974391/dsdt.aml - leads to a whole forest of other discussion, including a couple of Ubuntu bugs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/69925 https://launchpad.net/bugs/72775 which in turn lead to an upstream kernel bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5289 which is closed as a dupe of: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8049 which is closed as a dupe of: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11000 which is claimed to be fixed in 2.6.28 upstream (whew, that was a long chain). However, our reporter is having problems with Fedora 12, which indicates either the bug wasn't really fixed initially, or there's been a regression. The DSDT patch which was initially reported to fix the bug is mentioned in this comment on the first upstream kernel bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5289#c8 I will ask the reporter to attach his acpidump output to this bug.
Does booting with acpi.power_nocheck=1 on the kernel parameter line in grub help?
That last patch from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11000#c38 (commit eab4b645769fa2f8703f5a3cb0cc4ac090d347af) has been reverted in 2.6.32 and in Fedora 12 because it causes complete failure to boot on some systems.
chuck: aha, interesting, chuck. thanks. I'm still waiting for the forum reporter to answer my relayed request for the info mjg needs (comment #1)... -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Leaving this flagged needinfo until then
Reporter says: "The acpidump gave me no such file or directory.I did not expect it but the acpi.power_nocheck=1 seem to be working fine.Fedora 12 may be the only one accepting this option because it didnt work with ubuntu,debian,arch,gentoo,centos.I just hope to not have problem with the next kernels.Thanks for giving attention to my problem and report this bug.If i can help by giving information for that problem i am waiting.." So acpi.power_nocheck=1 does help. I forgot to tell him to install pmtools before running acpidump, sorry, my bad. I have sent him further instructions and will post back once we've got his BIOS info. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Created attachment 367186 [details] The output of acpidump Hello.Thanks adam for helping me with this bug,and everyone else ofcourse.I have attach the output of acpidump.
excellent, thank you John. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Can you test with the kernel build from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1788372 and see if this helps?
I could if there was an explanation or a guide for this testing.I downloaded f12 beta again.I cant make install,same problem i had with f11 see bugs 498457 or 484276.Also having problems after updating system with the latest kernel.Screen goes black if i open a window or start a program.When booting with previous kernel firefox doesnt start.
john: are you on 32-bit or 64-bit fedora? tell me that and I can give you exact commands for testing. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
32-bit
OK, try this then: go to http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1788377 and get kernel-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.i686.rpm and kernel-devel-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.i686.rpm . Open a console and go to the directory where you downloaded the files. Use 'su' to become root, then run: rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.i686.rpm if it complains about the versions of kernel-firmware and kernel-headers , get kernel-headers-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.i686.rpm from the same page and kernel-firmware-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.noarch.rpm from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1788375 , go to the directory, do 'su', and run: rpm -Uvh kernel-headers-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.i686.rpm kernel-firmware-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.noarch.rpm then try the first rpm command again. let us know if you get stuck. good luck! after all that, reboot and see how it works. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
[root@machine Downloads]# ls kernel-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.i686.rpm kernel-firmware-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.i686.rpm [root@machine Downloads]# rpm -Uvh kernel-headers-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.i686.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:kernel-headers ########################################### [100%] [root@machine Downloads]# rpm -Uvh kernel-firmware-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:kernel-firmware ########################################### [100%] [root@machine Downloads]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.i686.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:kernel ########################################### [100%] W: Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq.fw for module aic94xx.ko W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko W: Possible missing firmware ql2400_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko W: Possible missing firmware ql2322_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko W: Possible missing firmware ql2300_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko W: Possible missing firmware ql2200_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko W: Possible missing firmware ql2100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko [root@machine Downloads]# rpm -ivh kernel-devel-2.6.31.5-118.fc12.i686.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:kernel-devel ########################################### [100%] [root@machine Downloads]# Also after restarting,the system frezze at password prompt with the screen corupted or black and cannot login.At this point(login) it seems that the fan works properly.
Thanks - just to make sure, this is using the updated kernel and *not* using acpi_power.nocheck, right?
Yes.Even with the acpi.power_nocheck=1 option i have the same results.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Is there any reason why temperature limits are locked?
FYI, commit 0c99c5288eb9b1bbc9684b0ec0fd7efc578749b3 Author: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang> Date: Thu Dec 17 16:02:08 2009 +0800 ACPI: Disable explicit power state retrieval on fans If the ACPI power state can be got both directly and indirectly, we prefer to get it indirectly. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531916 describes a system with a _PSC method for the fan that always returns "on". There's no benefit in us always requesting the state of the fan when performing transitions - we want to do everything we can to ensure that the fan turns on when it should do, not risk hardware damage by believing the hardware when it tells us the fan is already on. Given that the Leading Other OS(tm) works fine on this machine, it seems likely that it behaves in much this way. inspired-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown> shipped in upstream linux-2.6.34-rc2
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