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Date:      Thu, 8 Feb 2001 20:07:36 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org>
To:        <mobile@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Inspiron fan problems (was: laptop cpu fan) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102081945560.4922-100000@littleblue.spotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <200102090054.f190sk302534@mass.dis.org>

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Mike Smith wrote:

>It's got nothing to do with the OS, at least not unless the OpenBSD
>people are doing better than anyone else and have ACPI working on the
>Inspirons.

For what it's worth (I'm just eliminating variables here, no flames
please), my 7500 handles fan operation properly under Linux.  That
would seem to contraindicate a firmware issue.

There's a thermal test function for the fan in BIOS; have you checked
it?

- -d

- -- 
David Talkington
Prairienet
dtalk@prairienet.org
217-244-1962

PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc




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