Keywords: loud fan, acpi I recently installed Mandrake on a work computer. It's working great, except its fan is really loud. So what's the big deal, right? -- well, the fan powers down if I go into Windows. The fan turns on when I power up the computer -- if I go into Linux, it stays on, but if I go into Windows, it powers down.
So there must be a way to power down the fan under Linux, too, and safely. I poked around a bit and I think ACPI is what's doing it, but I'm not sure. I recompiled the kernel with ACPI support but it won't load the modules (the kernel needs ACPI support, and the modules provide some more support, I guess -- I made everything I can into modules so I can test them) -- it says either the IRQ/IO hasn't been configured properly or the device doesn't exist. So either this computer doesn't use ACPI (but I'm pretty sure it does as the ACPI services show up under Windows), or I got the IRQ/IO wrong. I can find out the IRQ/IO from Windows end, but how do I pass the paramters to the modules? Which modules do I need to power down this freakingly noisy fan? Thanks in adv! -Mark -- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/ PGP key available upon request. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech