I'm sending this back to the list as it might be useful for archive readers
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:09:42 +0000 Minty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/16/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > See, that is the problem. > > /proc/acpi/fan > > is empty. Which I'm guessing means that the acpi on this machine > cannot detect the fans. > > but I was kind of hoping someone would have a fix ... Do you have a 'fan' module loaded? If not what do you have in the kernel messages about acpi? You could post the output of 'lsmod' and 'dmesg' 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]
