Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:33:54 -0600 | From | Bernard Moret <> | Subject | i8k support changed from 2.6.0-test7 to 2.6.0-test8? |
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I have a Dell Precision M60 laptop (effectively, a souped-up Latitude D800). I have tried just about every single 2.6.0-test*-bk* kernel (because this laptop BIOS does not support apm and has a lot of new, unrecognized hardware, I keep upgrading kernels every day or two...)
I have used with success under all 2.6.0-testx kernels so far the "Dell laptop support" (i8k) to enable me to control the fans and the volume buttons (with the i8ktools package; the fan control is particularly useful, because the M60 BIOS insists on running the fans all the time to keep the temp below 45C -- so it's noisy and has bad battery life). The i8k support complains that it cannot recognize my laptop model, but it works just fine (if used as a module, it has to be forced in for that reason). I normally compiled support directly into the kernel, not as a module.
The last kernel for which this worked was 2.6.0-test7-bk8. Two days later, the 2.6.0-test8 came out; I installed it with the same configuration; the result is: "no such device". I recompiled with i8k set up as a module to look more carefully at what happens when I insert it. I get the same error message: insmod: error inserting 'i8k': -1 no such device
I have yet to do a diff between the two sources to find out what changed; but I would humbly request that support for the i8k module remain in 2.6.x kernels -- it is very useful.
Bernard Moret -- Bernard M.E. Moret moret@cs.unm.edu http://www.cs.unm.edu/~moret (505) 277-5699 (office) (505) 277-6927 (FAX) (505) 277-3112 (department) Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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