[gentoo-user] set FAN speed

2005-09-13 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, I am having a very nasty problem. My Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop (P4 3.06 GHz) runs at very high temperature (77 degrees C) and in the room are only 20. I looked around at how to get the FAN speed up at max but lm_sensors simply doesn't want to get installed. ACPI does not

Re: [gentoo-user] set FAN speed

2005-09-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:14:59 +0300 Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a very nasty problem. My Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop (P4 3.06 GHz) runs at very high temperature (77 degrees C) and in the room are only 20. [...] Hm. And you're sure that the fan *isn't* already at

Re: [gentoo-user] set FAN speed

2005-09-13 Thread William Kenworthy
i8k handles the problem for the i8k's - it might work for you. There is also a dell laptop option in the kernel for a module that can be loaded (its needed for these utilities) and it can be accessed directly via /proc if the i8kutils do not cut it. Dell and their bloody broken ACPI ... BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] set FAN speed

2005-09-13 Thread Rob Oravec
0300, Catalin Trifu wrote: Hi, I am having a very nasty problem. My Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop (P4 3.06 GHz) runs at very high temperature (77 degrees C) and in the room are only 20. I looked around at how to get the FAN speed up at max but lm_sensors simply doesn't want to get