Dylan Hardison wrote:
> It seems kernels newer than 2.6.11, and especially 2.6.15,
> by default won't turn the fan on when ACPI is enabled, until the
> temperate is at "critical". That is usually 98C.
>
>
The real problem is with most of these stamped out name brand notebooks
is that they hide bios options. Did not use to be this way. My older
clunkier of a gateway has APM and ACPI support on it both work in linux
but the one nice thing about it is that I can control the fan from the
bios. Which has not been in newer dells or gateway or hp's or compaqs I
seen in the past 2 years.
> This is such a nice feature. I'm sure I could have cooked a pizza or
> two on my old laptop before it died, had I not been trying to figure
> out why the fan was off...
> This problem seems to crop up on any laptop running a kernel newer
> than 2.6.11...
>
submit a bug to who ever or try and fix it in the kernel your self. But
my HP is runing 2.6.15 and not having the problem you specify my fan is
kicking on at 50C like the it is programed too in the bios( no there is
not a setting just the information pulled from the manual) , and yes I
have acpi working.
> Joking aside... Is there any way of making the fan turn on, short of acpi=off?
> This seems to happen regardless of ACPI version, too. And besides
> that, it used to
> work in 2.6.11...
>
>
go back to 2.6.11 until the fix it then or if one of us knows a answer
to your problem lets not blow up another laptop here.
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