What sort of fan? Power supply? CPU? Case? Check to see if your kernel is built with:
Power Management Support Advanced Power Management BIOS support Make CPU Idle calls when idle -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Thursday 04 April 2002 12:53, Mark K. Kim wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech