acpi needed to control fans on HP Proliant

[Paul Saab]

Your HP rep is lying to you.  You have to have their health driver
(not ACPI) which is not available for FreeBSD.

akanwar at digitarchy.com (akanwar at digitarchy.com) wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> I run FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE on about 70 i386 boxes. Now we are evaluating a
> HP Proliant DL360 G3 servers for BSD compatability.
> 
> All seems good except except the fact that the fans in the server run full
> steam all the time (and they are LOUD). My HP rep tells me that if I
> install Windows on this box, it will automatically control fan speed via
> acpi.
> 
> How do I do the same in FreeBSD 4.8 ? 
> 
> I do not see any "acpi0" messages in the dmesg.
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> -ansh
> 
> 
> 
> 
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