On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:09:39 +0000 Minty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hiya, > > I bought a sony vaio tx1xp a couple of months back, wiped 'doz and > installed Kubuntu. > > Lovely as pie, and I am a very happy bunny. If anyone wants the > details, see [1] > > However, the fan turns on/off every few seconds, and it is starting to > annoy me. Even when running on a battery and the CPU is doing nada. > > So ... I have googled and poked around the acpi drivers as best I can, > but I'm stuck. > > Any pointers on how I can control the fan on this thing? > > M. > > [1] http://tinyurl.com/d8fjs > > ps. the laptop rocks. highly recommended unless a large screen is > something you find important. >
I do 'echo 3 > /proc/acpi/fan/FAN/state' to stop it (which also puts it back in auto mode). The sub-dirs will vary, but you need to find the corresponding state file of your fan (somewhere in /proc/acpi/) and echo the state (which also depends on the laptop). By the way, i have a HP Omnibook 6000 HTH Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
