From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 28 07:59:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F471065675 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:59:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A5B68FC16 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:59:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpGK2-0000wL-W9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:59:31 +0200 Received: from 231.3.16.95.dynamic.jazztel.es ([95.16.3.231]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:59:30 +0200 Received: from matiassurdi by 231.3.16.95.dynamic.jazztel.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:59:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Matias Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:59:19 +0200 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <20100826172000.GA46981@slackbox.erewhon.net> <4C778D2A.7090405@gmail.com> <20100827185209.GA79881@slackbox.erewhon.net> <4C78B652.10701@stillbilde.net> <20100828074018.GA1543@slackbox.erewhon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 231.3.16.95.dynamic.jazztel.es User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; es-ES; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: <20100828074018.GA1543@slackbox.erewhon.net> Subject: Re: fan control X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:59:32 -0000 El 28/08/10 09:40, Roland Smith escribió: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 09:10:10AM +0200, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: >> On 27.08.2010 20:52, Roland Smith wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:02:18PM +0200, Matias wrote: >>>> Thanks for replying! >>>> >>>> I've tried everything you mention here with no success: >>>> >>>> The BIOS is pretty basic, just allows to select boot order, set the >>>> date, and not much more than that. No sysctls also. >>> >>> Some desktop machines have a knob that you can turn which controls the fan >>> speed. >>> >>> In my experience only laptops come with a ACPI thermal subdevice. >> >> Then, I guess that you've not used to Asus mainboards? > > As a matter of fact I'm running a P5KPL-VM right now. No acpi_thermal sysctls > to be found. Of course I am running powerd. > >>>> I guess that my only option to check if the hardware has the feature will be >>>> to get windows on it and see what happens. >>> >>> Reading the manual is also an option. :-) >> >> Have you ever seen a manual for "consumer gear" that includes the word >> "FreeBSD" except (maybe) in the copyright notices? > > It doesn't have to. Even if it just says "Use the windoze program foo to > control the fan speed", you know that it's possible. > > Roland Well, the manual is almost useless. There is a bios update, but it scares me a bit the fact that the readme.txt included is a bit crappy and mentions something about a realtek networking card....probably they included the wrong readme. http://tecsrv.pcasl.com/driver/Giada_Slim-i2X_manual.rar Thanks!!