Hi all,
Just reaching out to see if I can get this tested by other owners of
Dell laptops.
It seems the i8k module fails on the current fedora kernels - I believe
due to some changes in the way gcc does optimisation. As such, the
temperature monitoring, fan control etc provided by i8k doesn't work.
Can anyone else with a Dell laptop try i8k and see if they get the
following output in dmesg:
[ 30.519132] i8k: unable to get SMM Dell signature
[ 30.519206] i8k: unable to get SMM BIOS version
[ 30.519223] Dell laptop SMM driver v1.14 21/02/2005 Massimo Dal Zotto
and that after a 'service start i8k' you see the following in /proc/i8k:
$ cat /proc/i8k
1.0 A14 <service tag> 127 163 163 20250 20250 -1 0
I believe the patch I've added to the BZ report will fix the issue - but
I want to make sure its not just my system
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647677
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