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i8k handles the problem for the i8k's - it might work for you. There is |
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also a dell laptop option in the kernel for a module that can be loaded |
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(its needed for these utilities) and it can be accessed directly |
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via /proc if the i8kutils do not cut it. Dell and their bloody broken |
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ACPI ... |
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BillK |
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rattus rpm # emerge i8k -s |
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Searching... |
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[ Results for search key : i8k ] |
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[ Applications found : 2 ] |
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* app-laptop/i8kutils |
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Latest version available: 1.25 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of downloaded files: 39 kB |
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Homepage: http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/ |
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Description: Dell Inspiron and Latitude utilities |
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License: GPL-2 |
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On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:14 +0300, Catalin Trifu wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I am having a very nasty problem. My Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop |
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> (P4 3.06 GHz) runs at very high temperature (77 degrees C) and in the room are |
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> only 20. |
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> I looked around at how to get the FAN speed up at max but lm_sensors simply |
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> doesn't want to get installed. |
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> ACPI does not work properly on this machines (it's a known problem). |
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> I am running on ck-sources (tried gentoo-sources and same result). I know the fan |
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> is not spinning at full speed (I ran the tests from Dell). |
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> Does anyone knoe how I could get the FAN up to speed ? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Catalin |
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William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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Home! |
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