On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:17:06PM +0200, Dot Deb wrote:
> 
>       I tried to check for a reason and I found that the HP warms
>       much more (10 degrees) than the Toshiba laptop. I guess this is
>       a cooling design problem and has nothing to do with software,

if you have original MS-whatever installed, compare what happens when 
running with the shipped OS. Also, check there what the pm utils knows
about the fan.

>       although the absence of any feature under /proc/acpi/fan sounds
>       strange, I think.

depends, if the BIOS was designed to offer standard hooks to the OS; if it 
was designed to talk to a proprietary pm util only, you're out of luck - or
in the need to disassemble and dig into the code of such util.

--
paolo


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