Re: how to control fan speed?

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

David Roguin writes:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote:
>> David Roguin writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I feel my notebook is heating up more than usual, what I do is
>>> manually write those commands
>>> # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_manual
>>> # echo "4000" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_output
>>>
>>> Is there a package that controls the fan speed according to some
>>> temperature stuff or something like that?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> fancontrol.
>
> $ sudo pwmconfig
> # pwmconfig revision 5857 (2010-08-22)
> ...
> # /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed

Use sensors-detect command to detect your sensors and load the required
modules if any.

-- 
Alberto