Re: how to control fan speed?

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

David Roguin writes:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Did that. Added coretemp to /etc/modules, but still the same error pop ups
> any ideas?
>
> Thanks a lot!

Then I'm afraid that it means that it there are not modules available to
control the pace of your hardware cooling fans, sorry.

-- 
Alberto