On Sunday 05 March 2006 09:52, Robert Snyder wrote:
> 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.
One of the little known fact about BIOS's is that when a manufacturer get's a
version he usually changes it as he finds fit, without declaring the
modifications.
In other words we never know if a manufacturer has altered a BIOS for the
worse. We don't know if it's the BIOS developer or the h/w manufacturer
that's behind the problem you have with a BIOS.
--Steve Szmidt
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