On Tue, May 8, 2007 11:48 am, Peter Hessler said: > The Fans being on are related to ACPI in an off-hand way. Since you > haven't enabled ACPI, the computer's BIOS controls the fans (which is a > correct decision). The BIOS isn't as smart as ACPI, so it just cranks > the fans until the CPU gets below a certain heat threshold. With ACPI > (all of it, btw) enabled, then ACPI takes over control of the fans, and > dynamically adjusts them.
Heck, the BIOS may not even be _that_ smart: It might just turn them on full blast all the time. It's a good 'default' position; all it does it wear the fan motors down a little, and those rarely break in modern equipment. (And when they do, they are easily replaced for cheap. Unlike the CPU...) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
