Is anyone familiar with a HP 8530 laptop?
In general, or for this model or HP family in particular, how does one
control the fan speed?
To date:
[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/acpi/fan/FANG/state
status: off
[root@localhost ~]# fancontrol status
Loading configuration from /etc/fancontrol ...
Error: Can't read configuration file
I definitely can feel the fan running. I have removed and replaced the
keyboard to get access to the fan so that I could use compressed dusting
gas to remove any dust accumulations (a relatively simple procedure for
this particular model), and have observed some reduction in running
temperature as reported by gkrellm. Currently, CPUZ is 63 C with a CPU
composite load average of approximately 40 percent.
Is there an OS environment (currently, SL 6x) or, for those familiar
with these HP machines, a BIOS, mechanism for forcing the fan to
maximum? How does one "fix" /etc/fancontrol, or is this not
feasible/useful?
Yasha Karant
