On Thu, 08 Nov 2007, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > John O'Hagan ha scritto: > > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > >> I can hear the fan spinning when there is a lot of cpu activity; but > >> when there is a disk activity the fan remain silent. > >> There is any method to control the fan or at least to force the fan to > >> maximum speed? > > My fan works fine by itself now (Thinkpad X31), but I recall needing to use > > the command > > echo 3 > /proc/acpi/[SOMEPATH]/fan > Please can you send the content of your fan directory?
what he described is a thinkpad feature, the "native" fan acpi interface is mostly broken, or not supported by the bios. Like someone suggested already, look for the toshiba tools packages in debian. -- Florian Reitmeir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
