Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 16:14 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote:

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 14:55 +0200, Thanasis Georgiou wrote:

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On 16 January 2012 14:03, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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[snip] I've had to resort to attaching a resistor to the fans wire in the past. [snip]

Or connect it to a potentiometer and have control of the speed.

I thought that since we are away from Ataris, we don't need a fan control anymore, anyway:

http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://coolcircuit.com/circuit/fan_controller/automatic__fan_controller.GIF&imgrefurl=http://coolcircuit.com/circuit/fan_controller/index.html&usg=__0gj-rPcDRlYeqo7LP42Sf6GAupE=&h=460&w=644&sz=8&hl=de&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=Ud3ZU4231DXQDM:&tbnh=162&tbnw=252&ei=Fj4UT_OuGJHKswbBxPQX&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfan%2Bcontrol%2Bcircuit%26hl%3Dde%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DUIp%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Dnp%26biw%3D1152%26bih%3D727%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Dimvns&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=379&vpy=165&dur=9865&hovh=190&hovw=266&tx=187&ty=67&sig=115928880652315582645&page=1&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0

Oops, it was accidentally sent. http://www.google.de/search?q=fan+control +circuit&hl=de&client=firefox-a&hs=ix9&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=np&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ET4UT7rjGNHKswar1eQl&ved=0CCMQsAQ&biw=1152&bih=727 Better are controllers that increase the speed, the higher the temperature is.