ttt wrote: > Just noticed that my Acer TM800 feels quite hot. Fan is not running,
though, and akpi shows only about 48°C - which wouldn't be that critical. Now maybe I'm wrong and akpi is right and there's nothing to worry about, but I want to be sure that the fan is independent off any OS specific acpi implementations. Can anyone confirm/deny that there's nothing that can intercept any fan on/off events?
I think so: running woody with the 2.4.18 kernel (without ACPI), the fan triggered each time the CPU was above a load of 90% for more than 5 seconds. If you're really concerned about that, I think you can change a setting in the BIOS to turn on the CPU fan all the time.
Olivier