[ltp] Re: Fan not shutting down in T40 (Roman Joost)

[Carlo Hamalainen]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:31:08AM -0500, ben lamothe wrote:
> What can be the cause of this, well I am no expert on cpu cooling, so my
> guess would be that there is some propreitary windows fan driver that
> IBM just hasn't made available for linux, or that linux,

I think this might be the case. If you go into the BIOS and then
diagnostics, there's a program (which appears to run in DOS!) that can
make the fan spin up at a few different speeds and then spin down. So
there's definately software control of the fan, if you ask me.

-- Carlo