alright so i got mandrake 10 up and running.
i enable acpi in bootloader and i enable it in service but my fan still won't shut off.

i am running a sony vaio pcv-rx641 desktop computer.
someone please help.

maybe if i give u guys some more facts.
ok, when i boot my computer usually the fan is realy loud, but when windows loads up the fan slows down to a soft sound.
but whenever i load linux the fan never slows down and i was told that acpi wil fix this so i downloaded mandrake 10 because it supposedly fixes this but the fan still does no "slow down"

anyone please

why is no one replying?

You're going to have to ease off. You only posted yesterday. Give it some time.

can anyone help me?

i don't understand why you would want your fan(s) to slow down. they are there for cooling & venting purposes. as far as i know, you can't control fan speed with acpi. you'd need a fan set up capable of multiple speed settings. the only thing i can suggest is checking in your bios settings to see if there are any kind of fan speed controls in there. if the fan noise is really bothersome, you could also buy & install a new fan(s). they're very inexpensive & easy to install & you can get some very quiet ones that won't make enough noise to even realize they're running.

otis

Hi
you will have to recompile the kernel with the right options enabled

cheers

synaspe do u happen to have a tutorial or anything that can help me on doing that because i am a noob.

Hi

mmm this can be a major operation but it can also be a simple operation but more info is needed about your system and you have to know about the contents of your system.

First check if you have the source installed on your system usually in /usr/src/linux/ if you find it there then you have the source.
Open the Makefile and add something to the EXTRAVERSION = xxxxx variable to define your kernel

From here you can start a kernel compile by opening a console and going to
/usr/src/linux/ This is where the source is kept
now the tricky part is do you want to start from scratch or just modify your existing kernel, if it is 'modify' then you have to find out what .config file your current kernel is compiled as.
I found the best way to do this was to just copy your config file from the /boot/ dir to the current dir.

Before you do this though you can clean up all the files in the src directory by issuing the command
[/B]make mrprorer[/B] You must be in the /usr/src/linux/ directory
This will remove all unecessary file and sort things out for you (basically)
It also removes a hidden file called .config which holds all the options that you are going to compile in to your kernel.

So now if you started a new kernel compile it would be like a clean slate and you would have to figure out what you need for your machine (A small mission if you dont know what your hardware comprises of)

So you need a starting point, easiest way is to copy the current config from boot to your source directory and renaming it at the same time. do this as root
cp /boot/.config-x-x-x /usr/src/linux/.config

The file in the boot directory may not be hidden and it may have a version info numbers added to it (just look around and you will find it)

Ok so now you have a starting point that you know works (your machine booted with this configuration)
issue the command from a terminal
[/B]make menu config[/B]
and a menu will pop up with all the various configurations and you can read through all of them and tweak as necessary.

I think the option you are looking to configure is Power management options
after you have finished tweaking the kernel exit and the menu config program will save to a file called .config
in the /usr/src/linux directory, you can check this by issuing
ls -la and you should see a .config and a .config.old file somewhere in there.

Now you are ready to compile the configured kernel
issue the following commands

make dep (configures dependancies if any are needed)
make bzImage (creates a zipped kernel image)
make modules (creates modules if necessary)
make modules_install (installs modules)

Ok now if you didnt modify the other options in the Makefile in the kernel source you should land up with a bzImage file in the root directory and a System.map file in the root directory.
Just move these files into the /boot directory renaming as you go about it

mv /System.map /boot/System.map-2
mv /bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2

ok give us a shout if you get this far

cheers

ok thanx i will attempt it this weekend.
i have regents right now.