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Re: Laptop fan doesn't stop



Good time of the day, again, amt.

You worte:
>>>Is there a fix to make my fan more responsive?
>>
>> Yes. Look toward thiese utilities:
>>
>> cpufrequtils
>> loadcpufreq
>> fancontrol
>
>Hey Sthu Deus, thanks for the reply. I currently have installed on my
>machine cpufrequtils, fancontrol and lm-sensors. As you saw or not
>from my message I just started using Debian since yesterday. I googled
>cpufrequtils and found out how to start and configure it. On the other
>hand I can't seem to find a guide for fancontrol so I would appreciate
>if you can tell me how to set it up in a way that doesn't kill my
>laptop. I can imagine this sort of things can be dangerous if not done
>right.

You do not need any special configuring of the util.s You will install
- at least this was my experience (dell/amd too).

The only thing You may set - which governor to use, like:

echo powersave > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

though default one (I think it is 'performance-on-demand' or like that)
should take of it well.

Your problem is missing util.s/modules. If You have the above packages
installed, then check if You have the modules loaded:

cpufreq_ondemand
acpi_cpufreq
powernow-k8

You do check w/

lsmod |grep -E 'cpufreq|powernow'

command. In my experience, it was not, so I added it to

/etc/modules

and rebooted the machine.


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