Jan Bernhardt wrote:
> Nicolas Boichat wrote:
>
>> Please send me a patch of what you updated in the driver to make it
>> working on a Mac Mini. I don't care if it's dirty, I'll clean it up.
>>
>> I think there is no accelerometer, no light sensors and obviously no
>> keyboard backlight on the MacMini, is it right ?
>  
> You are right: no light sensors and no keyboard backlight. Since I'm
> running Ubuntu Dapper and therefore kernel 2.6.15 I had to remove all
> code with respect to led devices. What I basically did then was to
> remove the whitelist checking. So I don't think my quick and dirty
> changes won't really help you. Anyway I attached the diff.
Ok thanks. I updated the SVN, could you check my patch works ?
> With the modification the driver loads and I can read the fan speed
> but the system gets sluggish, most likely because of these kernel
> messages:
>
>    [17185346.296000] applesmc: wait status failed: 5 != 10
>
It might be because there is no accelerometer in the Mac Mini, looking
at your patch, you didn't deactivate the input device related to the
accelerometer, which constantly tries to read the accelerometer data
(and always fails...). My new patch should fix the problem.

Best regards,

Nicolas

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