Re: Bug#501137: ITP: acerfand -- Control the fan of the Acer Aspire One

2008-10-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 05:30:12PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Matthew, and out of personal curiosity (as I will probably continue to > use this, at least until something better comes along): What does the > danger amount to? Say, a random lock-up? Or will it lead to hardware > malfunction (or sho

Re: Bug#501137: ITP: acerfand -- Control the fan of the Acer Aspire One

2008-10-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Matthew Garrett dijo [Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 02:35:11AM +0100]: > Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Keeps the fan from spinning constantly in the noisy Acer Aspire > > One. Provides also tools to query several machine-specific EC > > registers > > Be careful with this - it can't perfo

Re: Bug#501137: ITP: acerfand -- Control the fan of the Acer Aspire One

2008-10-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keeps the fan from spinning constantly in the noisy Acer Aspire > One. Provides also tools to query several machine-specific EC > registers Be careful with this - it can't perform the locking used by the kernel and firmware for EC access, so there's a

Bug#501137: ITP: acerfand -- Control the fan of the Acer Aspire One

2008-10-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: acerfand Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Rachel Greenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL : http://home.strangenoises.org/~rachel/aspireone/ * License : GPL Programmi