From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Feb 9 1:46:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from yog-sothoth.sgi.com (eugate.sgi.com [192.48.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E6437B4EC for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 01:46:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from sgiger.munich.sgi.com (sgiger.munich.sgi.com [144.253.192.2]) by yog-sothoth.sgi.com (980305.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam-europe) via SMTP id KAA1505257; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:43:58 +0100 (CET) mail_from (gwk@sgi.com) Received: from cuckoo.munich.sgi.com (cuckoo.munich.sgi.com [144.253.192.109]) by sgiger.munich.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA02979; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:42:56 +0100 Received: from sgi.com (hunter.munich.sgi.com [144.253.197.18]) by cuckoo.munich.sgi.com (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA94386; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:42:54 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3A828C0F.2BCC28F6@sgi.com> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:07:43 +0100 From: "Georg-W. Koltermann" Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Slager Cc: Greg Lehey , "Matt W." , misc@openbsd.org, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inspiron fan problems (was: laptop cpu fan) References: <3A8237D1.1196D4B9@egatobas.org> <20010209111548.B16260@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010209123632.A40266@albury.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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