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Re: 5.0.1 boot messages: a few questions



On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:

    FAN (PNP0C0B) at acpi0 not configured
      [Control of the CPU fan?]

Yes, this is a so-called ACPI fan. People have written drivers for it, but
there is not much to be gained from such dummy drivers.

Yes. As far as I know, with ACPI FAN you can either turn the fan on, or turn it off. Nothing in between. Not very useful.


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