Hello one and all, hope we are all well? Well.. I've had an interesting evening trying to install the new Fedora (zod) onto my laptop.. It was the normal 32-bit version (64-bit is still downloading at this point in time). Now, my laptop is a 64-bit machine, but I've never had any trouble installing a 32-bit ver before (I mean, I quickly installed SuSE onto it, which informed me that it was going to install a 32-bit OS onto a 64-bit system, but still worked perfectly well).. Ok, get to the point I hear you type.. Well.. The install fires up perfectly (both text and graphical), but for some reason the installer somehow disables the fan, which in-turn shuts down as it gets a bit hot under the collar.. Well.. To answer your question that "has you fan just packed up", the answer is no, as when I installed SuSE the fan kicked in, turning on and off happily. Just wondered really if anyone has come across this before? Dave _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://www.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug

i'd assumne it's an acpi problem with laptops at the fault of fedora.. look at the install boot options might give some clue?

The acpi=off setting worked like a treat.. Thank you :o) -----Original Message----- From: staffslug-bounces(a)staffslug.org.uk [mailto:staffslug-bounces@staffslug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Dave@Staffs Sent: 03 November 2006 11:39 To: staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk Subject: RE: [Staffslug] Adorea the Fedora? What can I say, fan wise, I like to be different!! Andrew, I'll take a look and see what acpi op's there are. -----Original Message----- From: staffslug-bounces(a)staffslug.org.uk [mailto:staffslug-bounces@staffslug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Dick Turpin Sent: 03 November 2006 09:28 To: staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Staffslug] Adorea the Fedora? On 03/11/06, Andrew Edwards <edwards.andrew(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > i'd assumne it's an acpi problem with laptops at the fault of fedora.. > look at the install boot options might give some clue? I second that, whats the grub menu saying? Usually its the other way round, the fan never switches off. -- Dick Turpin "Stand and deliver!" _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://www.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://www.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://www.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug