Re: Control CPU fan speed?

Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:

Try finding packages fancontrol or lm-sensors for your distribution; see
http://www.lm-sensors.org for further details.

IMHO, laptop, notebook and, or desktop machines are not equal; the
manufacturers can/mostly use proprietary components for these kinds of
things.

I've just gave it a try and it appears that it is a no go. I already had
fancontrol and lm-sensors installed but once I tried to run pwmconfig I was
presented with a message informing me that "no pwm-capable sensor modules"
were installed.


BTW, you neither cared to tell the make and model of your laptop nor
bothered to mention the version of your distribution, kernel and acpi
utilities.

I hoped there was some standard, generic way of controlling the CPU fan. It
is an Acer Extensa 5620z running Ubuntu 11.04.


Rui Maciel
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