thermald does also try to ensure the machine does not overheat via passive cooling too (e.g. cpu freq scaling etc), so I thought it may be useful to avoid the power-off overheating scenario.
It may be that once the kernel has booted it indicates to the firmware that the system is under ACPI control so the BIOS fan control turns off in favour for the OS control, which does not happen on Linux because we don't have the secret sauce of the windows driver to do this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728733 Title: fan only works when my acer 5315 is booted then stops Status in acpi package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: acpi fan only works when my acer 5315 is booted then stops.i have a acer aspire 5315 laptop. My fan stopped working after installing ubuntu from vista. ive changed it for a new one and still the same problem. no dust aswel. please help ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: acpi 1.5-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Mar 3 22:18:12 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: acpi To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi/+bug/728733/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
