Hi David, > > Can you submit this patch? I don't have a reasonable access to the > > lm-sensors community. > > I'll take a look. I'm pushing out some patches for the kernel driver > right now, so if you can hang on to that patch for a few days, I'll > review it. No problem. I will use Thermal Cruise anyway now. :-) But it would good for the other people which get worried about this issue. > > Second: Can you please tell me what echo 2 > pwm1_enable does on this > > chip? Is it an chip automatic fan control? It works great for me. It > > puts my fan currently to a 155. > > Yes, it's automatic. Take a look at > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/hwmon/w83627ehf: > pwm[1-4]_enable - this file controls mode of fan/temperature control: > * 1 Manual Mode, write to pwm file any value 0-255 (full speed) > * 2 Thermal Cruise > > There are two more modes (RPM cruise and SmartFan III) which are not > supported by the driver yet. That's mainly because 2 (Thermal Cruise) > works so well, I've focused on other things. Oh. That's fine. This reminds me for the ASUS Q-Fan (BIOS setting) modes. There you have Performance, Optimal and Silent. It would be good if pwmconfig could tell one that ones chip have such a automatic. Than I don't see any need for a software controller ala fancontrol. In such a case pwmconfig should write a startup script which sets the right enable mode and that's it. Regards Alex
