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Re: 5.0.1 boot messages: a few questions




To: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>

Subject: Re: 5.0.1 boot messages: a few questions

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>

Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 05:09:07 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:


    FAN (PNP0C0B) at acpi0 not configured
      [Control of the CPU fan?]


Yes, this is a so-called ACPI fan. People have written drivers for it, but
there is not much to be gained from such dummy drivers.


Yes. As far as I know, with ACPI
 FAN you can either turn the fan on, or  turn it off. Nothing in between. Not very useful.


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5.0.1 boot messages: a few questions
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