On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 07:13:38AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I've have toshset and toshutils installed on my 2805-S302. I have a few > questions: > > First, a question about the fan. Does it come on automatically regardless > of software? That is, without using toshset or toshutils will it still > come on? I believe it does, but I can't really hear the fan without > placing my ear right next to the back of the laptop (which I don't do very > often). > On my 490CDT the fan comes on automatically. Only during heavy runs like kernel compiles or numerical computations. > > Toshset requires root to run, but I can use the "fan" program to turn on > or off the fan as non-root. I'd think if I need root to access the > hardward with toshset I'd need it with the fan program. > If you write to the toshutils author, Jonathan Buzzard (not the Debian maintainer, that's me!), I figure he'll be able to give you the proper explanation for this. Maybe toshset shouldn't require root after all? > Running fan with --smart seems odd -- the fan cycles every second or so, > which doesn't seem good for the fan. Is that expected? > Well that's what it's supposed to do, by definition, so yes, it's expected. Whether you want it to do that or not is up to you. I don't bother with --smart or --daemon. --auto is sufficient for me. > When I run wmtuxtime and click on the wrench to configure I get eight > windows pop-up that say "ERROR: could not open interface to hardware", > regardless if I run wmtuxtime as root or not. What's causing that? > Again, I do have CONFIG_TOSHIBA set, and I can use toshset on this laptop. Can you confirm /dev/toshiba exists? What does "ls -l /dev/toshiba" return? > What's the best way to run wmtuxtime in .xsession? I'm running icewm, and > I'm not running xdm -- I just type startx after logging in. Just put wmtuxtime & in .xsession, should do the job. > > Is there a docking application that will show the fan status? Does anyone > have (links to) a description of (or suggestions for) a nice hardware > monitor setup? I'm running icewm. > Not that I know of, sorry. > > BTW -- I see this when running wmtuxtime: > > Gdk-WARNING **: Creating pixmap from xpm with NULL window and colormap > > what's that about? > What version of toshutils are you using? Regards, Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
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