Re: IT8721F fan control?

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On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:23:05 +0200, Alexandros Diamantidis wrote:
> * Luca Tettamanti [2010-11-11 14:56]:
> > > For the moment I've disconnected the chassis fan because it was very
> > > distracting.
> > 
> > It should be controllable with QFan, no?
> 
> Do you mean the BIOS Q-Fan option? It only mentions a "CPU Q-Fan", which
> is enabled and doesn't seem to do much for the front fan. The other two
> fans indeed aren't so loud, so it probably works for them. Could that
> mean that the front fan speed isn't controllable at all by the hardware?
> 
> Since even with Q-Fan enabled it's not as quiet as I'd like and
> temperatures don't rise much even under full load, I'd be nice if fans
> could go even slower if possible. My initial message was mostly a query
> about whether the native driver will allow this when complete.

Looking at the it87 driver code, it is pretty clear that I messed up
the manual fan speed control support for the IT8721F. Sorry about that.
It requires much larger changes compared to other chips, than I first
thought.

Working on it, stay tuned...

-- 
Jean Delvare

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