On Sunday, 14 October 2007 09:26, Daniel Würfel wrote: > Hi there, > > at first great respect for your fast answers. > I don't think, that the binary ati driver is the problem, because: > 1. with switched of "ati radeon display support" in the kernel, the fan > control works correctly (and i still using the ati-driver) How do you know, however, that the "ati radeon display support" in the kernel does not interfere with the ATI driver in a destructive way? > 2. the fan starts spinning at the boot screen even if the radeon display > driver was loaded (and the ati driver is not just loaded yet). I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Can you clarify, please? > Here you see the difference between 2.6.21, when it all works correctly, and > 2.6.22 and 2.6.23: the screen resolution of the boot screen changed to > the native resolution 1024x768 (in 2.6.21 it still the default terminal > resolution) This only means that the kernel's radeon driver has changed. It's difficult to say what's going wrong. What's the CPU load when the fan is spinning? Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html