On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:17:10AM +0100, Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: > Hi, > > is apm/apmd the only wat to change the fan speen? > > The fan speen never goes above: > hw.sensors.acpithinkpad0.fan0=4527 RPM > +- few RPMs > > if i set apmd -C or -A the laptop powers off after a while > without any warnings. > > with apm -L or -H its running, but getting hotter. > > Any suggestions/ideas?
Try sucking dust out of the heat vent with a hoover. That helped me once with a thinkpad that kept shutting down itself due to overheating. If you really want fan control and would be willing to patch the kernel for it, see here for several patches to manually control the fan on thinkpads: http://marc.info/?t=129104121700004&r=1&w=2 None of these were ever committed AFAIK. I don't know if they still apply to -current.
