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.
>
> 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...
>
> 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...
>
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As I've said many times, power/fan management in linux is terrible. For
a time, it was somewhat working, but my rule of thumb is to simply turn
all that crap off and let the BIOS do its job.
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