[lm-sensors] PWM control on Asus P4C800-E Delux dosen't work for chassie fan

[Mark M. Hoffman]

Hi all:

I've been AFK for quite a while...

* Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> [2008-01-02 15:30:41 +0100]:
> 
> Hi Rudolf,
> 
> Le 29/12/2007, "Rudolf Marek" <r.marek at assembler.cz> a écrit:
> >If there is no correlation found, you may try changing the base PWM
> >frequency. I don't recall if the driver supports it (imho w83627th F ?)
> 
> The W83627THF does DC fan control, not PWM, so there's no base frequency
> to change. Not that it would have helped anyway, if the board is wired
> for control then PWM=0 will stop the fan no matter the frequency.
> Changing the frequency only changes the response curve.
> 
> What Pelle could try is to connect a fan to the 3rd fan header then run
> pwmconfig again. But as you said, if is very frequent that only the CPU
> fan can be controlled and not the case fans, so I wouldn't hold my
> breath.

I have this exact board (P4C800E-Deluxe), and I can confirm that only
the CPU fan header allows fan control.  Sorry.

Regards,

-- 
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman at lightlink.com