RE: [ACPI] sudden power off with new acpi 20020208

[Diefenbaugh, P. S <pau...@in...>]

Erich:

> ACPI does not report my fan, yet, although enabled in the 
> kernel configuration. Everything else seems to work fine.
> I don't know if the fan is controlled by acpi properly; 
> there is a separated utility for dell inspirion which works 
> fine, even with acpi disabled (and it can additionally report 
> the dell service tag etc.).

We've got an 8100 in-house and it doesn't report a fan in the ACPI namespace
(DSDT) either.  Nothing we can do about this, though.

-- Paul