Re: how to control fan speed?

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

Alberto Luaces writes:

> 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.

By the way, did you already tried cpufrequtils?

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Alberto