On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 03:06:35PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > If you have the option of putting temp/fan speed under BIOS control > instead of operating system control, I'd do so, always. > > Putting such things under software control is one of the dumbest things > this industry ever did. Using a simple hardware only solution is the > only smart way to do thermal control, for a whole host of reasons. > > If you look at the enterprise hardware space (servers, storage arrays, > switches, routers, etc), NOBODY does thermal control in host OS > software. It's all done with dedicated hardware controllers. > > Which makes one wonder why they do this in host software in the consumer > space. I think the answer is two words: bells whistles
> I'm not a "pet peeve" person. If I were, doing temp/fan control in host > software would be a pet peeve of mine. If I were a cynical, paranoid and Microsoft-hating type, I would suppose that software fan control provides another opportunity for proprietary design, and incompabilities with free software. Joel > -- > Stan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dac99cb.2010...@hardwarefreak.com > -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110418211431.GA12071@sprite
