On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:25:29PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote: > On 4/20/06, Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:00:27PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote: > > > 1. need to add acpi support in s2881 LinuxBIOS support to get it. > > > Anyway 8111 acpi support is already there in Serengeti_leopard, so it > > > will be easy to get that. > > > > So.... if there is no ACPI support yet for this board in LinuxBIOS, does > > that > > mean that there is no automatic fan control in hardware? In other words, > > that > > the CPUs will cook if they get too hot, because the fans won't start blowing > > harder automatically? > > If they do then the hardware designers failed miserably. Generally > what I find is that when you first power on the machine the fans come > on full. Then the bios takes over. > What happens in the case when the power supply is going flaky and > machine glitches on startup and doesn't fully boot? > > If you pull the bios chip and then power up the board and the fans > don't come on full then I would find a different manufacturer since > that one is just waiting to cook itself in a crash.
So far I'm really happy with Tyan and this board in particular. I'll see if I can try that tomorrow. I'd be surprised if the fans don't do the right thing. Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
