[LinuxBIOS] some more tyan/s2881 questions

[yhlu]

Not yet.

Let my try again.

YH

On 9/13/06, Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:
> Hey YH,
>
> Any news from Tyan? We've recently acquired a s2882, which has the same
> fan-control problems (the kernel complains with 'ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP'
> etc). At least getting LinuxBIOS onto it was trivial :)
>
> Thanks,
> Ward.
>
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:44:33PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> > I have asked tyan to give us some direction...
> >
> > YH
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ward Vandewege [mailto:ward at gnu.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:28 PM
> > To: Lu, Yinghai
> > Cc: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
> > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] some more tyan/s2881 questions
> >
> > Hi YH,
> >
> > Have you made any progress on this? Not being able to control the fans
> > is the
> > last thing that is stopping us from deploying LinuxBIOS. I'm worried
> > that the
> > fans will wear out because they come on at full speed after boot, and I
> > can't
> > control them under LinuxBIOS (except if I boot the proprietary BIOS
> > once, and
> > then don't unplug the power to the machine before booting in LinuxBIOS).
> >
> > Any help would be _greatly_ appreciated...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ward.
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:59:52PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> > > I have inited the hw sensors in LinuxBIOS for s2881. So you could use
> > > lmsensor to check the FAN speed. The config file is on Tyan web.
> > >
> > > For the Fan control, there should more some reg setting...to reduce
> > the
> > > FAN speed winbond and adm1027...
> > >
> > > YH
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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