To Laptop ACPI Developers
Posted: Dec 02, 2007 - 23:53:42
Warning, rant follows
You're writing one of the most critical pieces of software as far as making a work really well laptop is concerned. Please, take a few days to read and understand the ACPI spec. Its really not hard to do and it will save everyone much trouble. Specifically, don't attempt to do creative things like using WBEM to manage the GPU fan. WBEM use should be restricted to things like software asset tagging. The ACPI spec gives you a very good set of tools to manage GPU fan speeds. This would also allow you to use the drivers provided by the GPU manufacturer without modification and thus supply drivers more recent than a year and a half ago.
Done rant. Sorry, my Laptop, ironically, works better in Linux than in Windows. The GPU fan has decided it doesn't need to run at anything like full speed even when the GPU is hot enough to boil water.
You're writing one of the most critical pieces of software as far as making a work really well laptop is concerned. Please, take a few days to read and understand the ACPI spec. Its really not hard to do and it will save everyone much trouble. Specifically, don't attempt to do creative things like using WBEM to manage the GPU fan. WBEM use should be restricted to things like software asset tagging. The ACPI spec gives you a very good set of tools to manage GPU fan speeds. This would also allow you to use the drivers provided by the GPU manufacturer without modification and thus supply drivers more recent than a year and a half ago.
Done rant. Sorry, my Laptop, ironically, works better in Linux than in Windows. The GPU fan has decided it doesn't need to run at anything like full speed even when the GPU is hot enough to boil water.