Arch Linux

Is there functionality for setting the fan speed?
I use this
http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/421850-1810tray.html
tray utility to control that setting in Windows and I am wondering if it can be done by acerhdf as well.

no, i just used extramodules myself since i dont want to rebuild this for each minor patch bump. I guess that wouldnt work well for users of the stock kernel now that i think of it.
But you should separate the build() and package() per https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS - PKGBUILDs without package() functions are deprecated
and using $srcdir $pkgdir instead of $startdir

@skydrome:
has the "updates" folder been disabled? If so, could you please point me to the commit, where this has been done? Thanks.

updated pkgbuild https://gist.github.com/skydrome/5329149/raw/PKGBUILD

nevermind i just diff'd mainline and this and answered that question. Gonna try this new version to see if it fixes some issues ive been having.

this module is present in the kernel staging drivers for a while. Is this different?

updated for 3.8

Nevermind my previous comment. The source file included in the PKGBUILD is not valid for kernel version 3.8+. Replaced with version from piie.net and it compiled fine.

I'm getting the same error from the pkgbuild.

[code][dan@archbook acerhdf]$ makepkg acerhdf.install
==> Making package: acerhdf 0.5.30b-1 (Sat Mar 16 14:36:05 EST 2013)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
-> Downloading acerhdf_kmod-0.5.30b-linux-3.6-3.8.tar.gz...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 8308 100 8308 0 0 3599 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 3601
-> Found acerhdf.install
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
acerhdf_kmod-0.5.30b-linux-3.6-3.8.tar.gz ... Passed
acerhdf.install ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
-> Extracting acerhdf_kmod-0.5.30b-linux-3.6-3.8.tar.gz with bsdtar
bsdtar: Failed to set default locale
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...
make -C /lib/modules/3.7.9-2-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=/home/dan/tmp/acerhdf/src/acerhdf_kmod modules
make: *** /lib/modules/3.7.9-2-ARCH/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
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compiles fine for me, could you please compile it again with "LANG=C" so that I can understand the output of your compile? - Not everybody can read your encrypted language ;)

and about the acerhdf in the kernel; it is currently broken, as they changed the thermal-layer. A patch is applied to 3.9-rc*, but not yet backported to linux 3.6-3.8, so you need this package.