Quoting Uwe Andersen: > do you know how to work with the fan control capability (PWM) of a > Winbond W83697HF? > I tried various values in the bank0-registers 0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, > 0x04 with various fans(do PWM need special fans?) but the fan > rotation never changed. PWM doesn't need special fans AFAIK (unlike fan speed reporting). The W83697HF has two PWM channels (registers 0x01 and 0x03) which are handled by our drivers (w83781d and w83627hf). You should not have to play with registers directly, simply use the the pwm1 and pwm2 files exported through procfs (2.4 kernels) or sysfs (2.6 kernels). The value to write to/read from the file is between 0 and 255 (these are the values of the registers, unchanged). For gory details, see the W83697HF datasheet, but it should not be needed (unless you suspect there is some bug in our drivers). You may want to take a look at the tools under prog/pwm and doc/fancontrol.txt in our package. Note that for PWM to work, your motherboard manufacturer must have wired the chip and fans correctly. If you cannot get it to work, this may simply mean that this wasn't done. Which motherboard is it after all? -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
