Subject: Re: APM *and* ACPI or is it APM *or* ACPI?
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/11/2003 11:04:28
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hi,

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:47:08PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> What you'll need to do is to execute the appropriate ACPI method to
> assure that the fan is turned on when ACPI gets an event indicating
> that the temperature has gotten too high. See section 12 of the ACPI
> manual.

Yet another stupid design decision in PC hardware. Fans should auto-switch
on when the temperature is too high. Implemented in hardware. I guess we can't
circumvent this? (Other than keeping the fan always running)

Regards,
	-is

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