From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Feb 8 18: 8: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from monarch.prairienet.org (monarch.prairienet.org [192.17.3.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A909C37B699 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 18:07:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 24185 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2001 02:07:41 -0000 Received: from slip-43.prairienet.org (HELO littleblue.spotnet.org) (192.17.3.63) by monarch.prairienet.org with SMTP; 9 Feb 2001 02:07:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by littleblue.spotnet.org (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f1927er07969 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 20:07:41 -0600 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 20:07:36 -0600 (CST) From: David Talkington X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: Inspiron fan problems (was: laptop cpu fan) In-Reply-To: <200102090054.f190sk302534@mass.dis.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQEVAwUBOoNQ7L1ZYOtSwT+tAQHlpAf+Pbr3KrMRcVQCBx/uyIiq1FSRN8MTUfRQ EUOd2Cx908VXVoG1mLeD+C2DpqpeUrH64q2fY0sW2kNyD/vZxBmNf3szWpLanlqs 0zqGi1n8WyyA5a6Nmkmi9A88vtDSib8nbCm6eQleCcBwDgAU0fYpNZK4HMZ9x6UB lgIuMPboq/T5RQEtefbmhso8p3ZtiIVhGgLNDWGXquuRy7BLJAWbtGqnifsnsH1C NYFzpjnv+U8rHwIrI7yNHwEFtn/Y/zJP8L2b+YyE+ThtKwrOZVmPQ78pgPok3mDH rwexqwo1ZlKaW6o3SPiyV4eGQldIOUhbhfRwE/9vygujmEOt3bW42w== =Zdr6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message