From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 29 6:51:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lorax.neutraldomain.org (dsl027-187-101.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.27.187.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E7F037B442; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 06:51:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by lorax.neutraldomain.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CC969CEE2; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 06:51:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 06:51:32 -0800 From: Gabriel Rocha To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPU fan control on laptops ? Message-ID: <20011129065132.D70269@neutraldomain.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from freebsdfan@hotmail.com on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:48:01AM -0800 X-ideology: "VIVERE LIBERE AUT MORI" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 29, at 06:48AM, Chuck T. wrote: | I recently installed FreeBSD 4.4 on my Toshiba 440CDT laptop. The keyboard | cover becomes quite warm after running for a few minutes. Under WinDoze the | CPU fan speed varies depending on the CPU temperature. Apparently this is a | software function, as I don't think the fan is coming on under FreeBSD. Is | there something I need to configure to get the fan to come on ? I've | searched the handbook and mailing lists, but I didn't find any mention of | this issue. It probably doesn't help you any, but at least on my laptops (T20 and 600X) the fan comes on when the laptop gets a little warm. Just starts going until the temp is acceptable again...--Gabe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message