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Subject: [acpi-jp 1841] Re: Cooling fans <- mine doesnt switch off.
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 04:37:40PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:03:05PM -0700, Michael Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm trying to work out why my cooling fan doesn't switch off once it
> > > switches on.  I was hoping that someone might give me the low-down on
> > > the ACPI logic that controls this.
> >
> >
> > We're not switching it on; your platform firmware/EC is.
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether this demonstrates that platform vendors don't trust 
> > Microsoft to run the fans right, or whether we're not correctly taking 
> > over control from them; you might want to start by resolving that issue.
> >
> 
> I don't know what's happened recently but my cooling fan just switched
> off.  It's not done that before.  Maybe somethings been fixed without me
> noticing.

Switched off permantely or just off for a while then back on later?

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