Re: Thinkpad R50 Fan control

[Tobias Kraus <kraus.mailingliste.01@gmx.de>]

Am Freitag, 9. Juli 2004 23:49 schrieb Alex Rush:
> Hi,
> I'm running a Thinkpad R50, Kernel 2.6.5 with acpi turned on.
> My Problem is, that the acpi fan control doesn't work.
>
> /proc/acpi/fan/
>
> is empty. On other laptops there is a directory FAN0 with several
> options like the one in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq.
>
> Few minutes auf booting, the fan turns on and never stops running,
> even though the CPU-usage is below 1%.

I had the same problem. I'm not quite sure, but IIRC I solved it by 
turning off APIC (not ACPI - though I'm using APM) in the kernel.

Tobias

>
> Have I forgotten some general stuff or doesn't this feature work at
> all on thikpads?
>
>
> Bye, Alex.

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