Hi Stephen, Eric, > > I have been submitting a patch to enable Fan speed control on my > > P4P800, and if you disable Q-Fan in the BIOS it work perfectly, you > > just set the temperature you want, the tolerance and the step and it > > works perfectly, don't need to rely on any tool like Speedfan on > > Windows to set the speed of my fan. The patch is being tested and > > modified to comply with lm-sensors standard. But if you are > > interested I can send you the patch that works great. I'm a bit worried by the "if you disable Q-Fan in the BIOS" condition. It should work even with it enabled. Anyway, Eric, I am still waiting for you to post the latest version of your patch so that we can improve it. > I realise now that my first mail was somewhat hasty, and in fact my setup > is (was) so unusual that it probably doesn't justify keeping reset=1. I > imagine most people who set Q-Fan up in their BIOS would want its fan > control to remain after booting, and those people who want to use > software-based fan control would simply disable Q-Fan altogether! Except that some boards do not let you disable the automatic fan speed control. > Furthermore if the controller can be switched from one mode to another > at run-time, resetting it would become unnecessary (or rather, subsumed > by the mode switching), wouldn't it? My point exactly. I still want to remove the reset parameter in the long run, but I think we need to merge Eric's patch (after rework) before we do. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare
