Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:07:43 +0100 From: "Georg-W. Koltermann" <gwk@sgi.com> To: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "Matt W." <kmx@egatobas.org>, misc@openbsd.org, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inspiron fan problems (was: laptop cpu fan) Message-ID: <3A828C0F.2BCC28F6@sgi.com> References: <3A8237D1.1196D4B9@egatobas.org> <20010209111548.B16260@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010209123632.A40266@albury.net>
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Nick Slager wrote: > > Thus spake Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.com): > > >On Thursday, 8 February 2001 at 0:08:17 -0600, Matt W. wrote: > >> I've got a Dell Inspirion 5000e and was wondering if there is anyway to > >> get obsd 2.8 to run a nop loop in the background when the processor > >> isn't being used. The reason i ask this is the cpu fan is on constantly > >> even when nothing is happening. > > > > I've noticed a similar problem with my Inspiron 7500 running FreeBSD. > > I think it's a bug in the OS. What I'm observing is that after > > booting the fan will be off, but if at some time the system gets hot > > enough to turn on the fan, it never goes off again. APM does work on > > the 7500, and if I suspend and resume, the fan goes on immediately on > > resume, even though the system is cool. The only way to stop it is to > > reboot. Has anybody else noticed this? > > That's odd; I have (actually someone I work with has) a 5000e here > running FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE (~ October 13 2000) which doesn't exhibit > this problem. > > The fan kicks in when the system is warm enough, but also stops when > things cool down. > Same here, Inspiron 7500, FreeBSD 4.2. It just works as it is supposed to. Regards, Georg. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Who in the world needs 2000 Windows? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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