From: "Joao Clemente" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've read the linuxtoday announce about 2.4.22-pre1. In it was: > > ACPI: Fix thermal management (Pavel Machek) Make thermal trip points R/W > (Pavel Machek) Allow handling negative celsius values (Kochi Takayoshi) > > > If I'm not mistaken, this means that we'll be able to set the temperature > that triggers the fan start/stop?
Only on a laptop that supports it. Many don't seem to put thermal management into ACPI (for good reason, imo - you really shouldn't mess with the manufacturer's intentions). You may think your machine runs a little hot, but what happens when you accidentally change a trip point of 70C to 700C... OK, you probably need to do that two or three times before you disable _all_ checks, but if you routinely miss the first trip point you can't be doing your laptop any good. otoh, if thermal management really _was_ broken before, that's even worse than if you explicitly break it by setting wrong trip points. -- derek
