[ltp] Fan-questions again...

[Benjamin Buch]

Am Mittwoch, den 10.01.2007, 17:26 -0200 schrieb Henrique de Moraes
Holschuh:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Gilson Laurent wrote:
> > > -is there a way to lower the fan speed except changing levels?
> > 
> > Not w/o opening the laptop. Don't do it.
> 
> Actually, you can hack the EC firmware (good luck on that, you're on your
> own).  If you had one of the few X-series models that allow one to change
> the speed range directly through ACPI, you could improve ibm-acpi to do that
> instead (or convince me to do that work).  Note: the X60 cannot.  That
> feature didn't stay for long...
> 
No, thanks, I'm not that familiar with fw-hacking...
Why did they implement the direct speed range change only in x-models?

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>   them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
>   where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
>   Henrique Holschuh