fan never stops working

mmodem · 04-06-2005, 03:09 PM

I have an Asus A2H, its a P4 2.8Ghz.

Im using mandrake 10.2 Rc2 and have just updated my system
( kernel-2.6.11.6mdk-1-1mdk)
The problem is the fan never stops working, makes too noisy (think im going
deaf), but as i remember since i use mandrake, since version 7, it always was
like this.

If i go to Windows the laptop runs smoothly and the fan only works when is
needed (compile and such).

This is very annoying, any help?

Ben2210 · 04-07-2005, 06:01 PM

Probably, the relevant kernel modules are no longer getting loaded. To check, type lsmod. Does it mention 'fan' and 'thermal' ?

if not, modprobe them.

To enable it at startup, check your modules loading script file. Don't know how it is called on MDK, all I can tell you is that on Slackware it's /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. Try replacing rc.d by init.d