On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:24:15PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I strongly oppose installing, by default, any userland program that > > takes over such low-level hardware control. > > Considering that Linux (on my machine) doesn't appear to be able to > spin the fans up to full speed and in general control the fans well > enough to prevent overheating and emergency shutdown without thinkfan > installed and manually configured, I'll have to disagree with you. > IIRC I found out about how to fix this issue with thinkfan from > thinkwiki.org. But as you've noted, it requires manual configuration. Are you suggesting that the installer should step you through configuring thinkfan? Sounds like recipe for disaster to me. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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