From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 16 08:05:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C09B16A403 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:05:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feelingwei@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE05443D58 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:05:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from feelingwei@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so2547288nfc for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:05:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bH6ZLhWW/xQYMHPplbmMj7MtSzDmTv5XHyrAY3uH2m8xDmC2G06P+kZcm1O4IVXWHaJ1R9wB/5MGffCCarlozOQZAVkVRssbUuhig0UDgA0oAQl839NtLghN0hBbQBncl3a58pvArPW9cES1Ye8K4KH/8JNpWPhiN7TUQZPIxPE= Received: by 10.48.254.10 with SMTP id b10mr14331896nfi; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.12.2 with HTTP; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:05:48 +1000 From: "Wei Hu" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200609152305.37375.daeg@houston.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200609152305.37375.daeg@houston.rr.com> Subject: Re: The fan is always on, even when the desktop is rather cool X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:05:50 -0000 Thanks David, I checked this page. now if I do: $ sysctl hw.acpi hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S1 S3 S4 S5 hw.acpi.power_button_state: S5 hw.acpi.sleep_button_state: S1 hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE hw.acpi.standby_state: S1 hw.acpi.suspend_state: S3 hw.acpi.sleep_delay: 1 hw.acpi.s4bios: 0 hw.acpi.verbose: 0 hw.acpi.reset_video: 1 hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported: C1/0 hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 hw.acpi.cpu.cx_usage: 100.00% and if i do #sudo acpiconf -s 5 OR #sudo acpiconf -s 1 nothing happens. Can I reinstall acpi, if yes, how can i do it? thanks. On 9/16/06, David J Brooks wrote: > 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