Re: control system fan with software

Magnus Warker wrote:
Dear Giovanni,

my kernel has support for acpi, as shown below.

I assume that ACPI_FAN is important for me. But how can I actually modify
the fan?


Check the lmsensors package. It has the utilities to monitor and control the fan.

Ciao
Giovanni
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