On 20100925_224627, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Paul E Condon put forth on 9/25/2010 7:58 PM: > > > Thanks, but ... > > Paul you're hardware handicapped. :( All the modern Asus boards (and > many others) have the "Qfan-2" feature which controls fan speed based on > user configurable BIOS settings. Apparently you never read your > motherboard manual. You need no OS level software to control the fan speed. > > You can whine over "it worked but now it doesn't, and why is that?" or > you can simply go into your BIOS and set it the way you want and be done > with it. > > Your case is but one of many reasons I've have scolded this industry for > many years WRT OS/application level control of hardware features such as > voltages, frequencies, and fan speeds. If the hardware and/or BIOS are > designed properly, there is no need for application software level controls. > > Pull out your mobo manual and solve your problem.
Thanks, Stan. YOU solved my problem. I knew I was missing something, but my search was defective and I wasn't finding what I needed. You gave the clue of the marketing name of the feature that I wanted to control. The manual has no index and the TOC does not mention Qfan. I had already done what I thought was an exhaustive search of the manual, so this time I decided to do a depth first walk of the selection tree in the BIOS user interface. This worked for me. After finding the control for Qfan in the seletion tree, I managed to find it in the paper manual. I also don't like the way the industry presents its products to its customers, but I doubt that any suggestion that I might make would deserve to be taken seriously. Thanks. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100926153357.ga3...@big.lan.gnu
