On Jun 10 11:20:43, Michal wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of
> Joachim Schipper
> Sent: 10 June 2009 11:09
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: controlling the fan?
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:53:39AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> > Scenario: 4.5 on MSI Wind PC, everything works. I use this machine
> > because it is relatively low-power and quiet.
> >
> > The fan rotation changes with how much the CPU is used
> > (could someone translate this into the real thing please?),
> > without me doing anything about it on the OS level.
> >
> > Unless I run something heavy, such as launching mozilla, the fan keeps
> > pretty quiet (below the level of noise that would annoy me), but still,
> > it could be quiter. Is there a way to control the fan RPM from the OS?
> > (Unsurprisingly, hw.sensors.adt0.fan0 is readonly.)
>
> This also doesn't answer your question, but have you though about setting
> the BIOS
Yes I have.
> you can set fan speed settings to keep it at a certain RPM and so
> forth
No you can't - not on this machine. The BIOS only has a "hardware
monitor" that tells you the CPU temperature and fan RPM speed, but
it's readonly. (Otherwise I would just set -273.15C yesterday.)
Jan
