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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:05:36 -0500
From:      David J Brooks <daeg@houston.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The fan is always on, even when the desktop is rather cool
Message-ID:  <200609152305.37375.daeg@houston.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <b845e4900609151610y7bced70rab649faccb766f7f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <b845e4900609151610y7bced70rab649faccb766f7f@mail.gmail.com>

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On Friday 15 September 2006 18:10, Wei Hu wrote:
> I have 3 systems in my desktop:
> 1) When FreeBSD runs, my desktop fans are always running, and this
> make annoy noisy.
> 2) However when Debian runs, the fan eventually stops unless I am
> performing a load intensive task.
> 3) In Windows, the fan is almost always off.
> I tried to use acpi and apm, but they are for laptop.(?)
> In Freebsd, how can I control the cooling fans or how can the system
> turns the fans off when the load is not heavy.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It sounds like a broken ACPI code to me. Check the handbook chapter on 
debugging ACPI: 

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html

David
-- 
Sure the Almighty created the world in only six days,
but He didn't have an established user-base.



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