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From: Takanori Watanabe <takawata@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp>
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Subject: [acpi-jp 1128] Re: ACPI and fan's on my Inspiron 5000e.
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In message <20010508135353.D752@tao.org.uk>, Josef Karthauser $B$5$s$$$o$/(B:
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>Yesterday something funny happened on my Inspiron 5000e.  The
>cooling fan got into a cycle of running fast for a few seconds and
>then slowing down for a few seconds, and repeating ad infinitum.
>I had to reboot to cure it.  Is this something that's controlled
>by ACPI?  I'm guessing that it probably has something to do with
>thermal zones (I remember Mike showing me about that at BSDCon last
>year).  Is this something that anyone's looking at, or can someone
>hit me with a clue stick so that I can investigate myself?
>

This can be controlled by ACPI but ,if ACPI is not activated,
it is done by BIOS invoked by SMI, I think.
Would you give us DSDT and ASL Block?

Takanori Watanabe
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