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Hi,

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:08:16PM +1100, BlueAgent wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:04:28AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:47:08PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >=20
> > > What you'll need to do is to execute the appropriate ACPI method to
> > > assure that the fan is turned on when ACPI gets an event indicating
> > > that the temperature has gotten too high. See section 12 of the ACPI
> > > manual.
> >=20
> > Yet another stupid design decision in PC hardware. Fans should auto-swi=
tch
> > on when the temperature is too high. Implemented in hardware. I guess we
> > can't circumvent this? (Other than keeping the fan always running)
>=20
> I guess there should be some way to circumvent this, Windows seems to
> be able to control fan speed on my brand new HP Pavilion 724a.

That was not what I was talking about. I was talking about setting the
hardware to auto-control the fan without depending on the OS not being
crashed. I know we should be able to control the fan from within NetBSD.

Regards,
	Ignatios

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