(Huh, please don't use URLs as post subjects.) On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:49:38 +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > So we might have the same problem. > In my situation I have a VIA EK8000 which has the fans running during a > boot until the kernel loads/starts. Then the fans stop. So is it a Linux > issue? > When the w83627hf module is loaded with the reset=1 parameter the fans > start again. Fancontrol is functional (although I do not use it). > > What can we do to find out more? I guess the BIOS is enabling the automatic fan speed control, with parameters such that the fan is stopped by default. I suspect the fan would start spinning after some time when the temperature is high enough. Check your BIOS settings for "Smart Fan" or something similar. Using reset=1 is no good as you lose all the BIOS settings. This should only be used as a last resort. So look in the BIOS if you can disable the automatic fan speed control. Or just live with it, it should work after all. The w83627hf driver should be updated to let the user disable the automatic fan speed control at runtime. I think there was a patch doing that floating around some times ago, but it never got merged. -- Jean Delvare
