On Jul 25, 2007, at 3:55 AM, Juerg Haefliger wrote: Hi Juerg, > Ah, you're right. That page does mention fan control. So maybe VIA did > learn something. You would be a perfect candidate to test the fan > control features of the vt1211 driver, if you had a fan... Would be not a problem to connect a fan... may be I will try it one day... > Not sure what pwmconfig does but the vt1211 chip is capable of > adjusting the fan speeds by itself and automatically based on temp > readings. The driver does support that (although it hasn't been > tested), it's just a matter of setting up the sysfs attributes > correctly. So you say, the fan will be adjusted by the cpu itself? Hm, so I should give it a try... do you recommend shutting down before connecting the fan? > What do you mean by bridge? The temp reading comes straight from the > CPU. There's an internal thermal diode in the CPU that's connected to > the vt1211. There's no bridge involved here. It's only a function of > the CPU thermal diode properties (which are unknown for Nehemiah, at > least to me). Ah okay, I am talking about southbridge, etc... Regards, c.
