Hi! > >>But it seems hardware should be backwards-compatible... > > > >Ok, it seems it is. But by default it starts in (non-compatible) smart > >fan III+ mode. I can do port(0x15e) &= ~0x20 to kick it back into > >compatible mode, and I can then control CPU fan speed in 800..1700 RPM > >range as expected; but my goal was to stop the fan to make the machine > >quiet... No success with that so far. > > Not all CPU fans can be stopped. Maybe that is the case here ? All the CPU fans can be stopped, with enough force :-). Trouble is, I'd like to stop this one with software, and that might not be possible. (I wonder how they do it? Clearly fan _is_ connected to the PWM output somehow. Do they have second, hard-coded PWM generator and logical OR on board...?) Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
