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On 5/30/06, JC Denton <jcdentonmail@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> Where can I configure my fan? I have a Thinkpad R40 and the fan starts |
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> realy often. The thing is, the air coming out of the notebook is almost |
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> cold! Also the fan runs always in the highest mode. But is had at least 2 |
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> modes. I have all the acpi stuff enabled in the kernel but no bios-support. |
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> Can I change the temperature values (I know it is some risk ;-) )? |
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> Can I set the fan speed somewhere? |
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Is your fan controlled by ACPI? Do you have the ACPI fan driver |
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built? If both are true, you should get some files in /proc/acpi/fan |
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that may allow you to manually control the fan. |
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You might also see if 'cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/cooling_mode' or |
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'cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/trip_points' report anything |
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interesting. |
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Unfortunately the fan in my Dell is controlled by the hardware or |
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BIOS, so I can't be of a lot of help here. |
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-Richard |
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