On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 11:20 -0800, g...@maillr.com wrote: > Hello. > > I have an older Compaq Proliant ML350 (Dual Intel Pentium® III 1.0 > GHz > Model) running Debian Wheezy that I have been using for many MANY > MEEE > NEEEE years as a web server. It works great, everything is fine, I > will > continue to run it until the end of time. lol > > That said, I have tried off and on thru the years to control the fan > speed. It runs constantly at full speed. It's very loud. I have > tried > using fancontrol and could never figure out how to get it to work on > this system; and while on other systems fancontrol works perfectly > fine. > > What's interesting is that the fan is 100% controlled in a Microsoft > Windows environment. I don't like Windows and I would rather go deaf > listening to the fan running on Debian than to use the machine with > Windows installed. > > But, if anyone can help me it sure would be nice to get a muffler > installed on this server. If anyone has advice on how to gain control > of > the fan I'll be forever appreciative. > > Here's the link to the specs-sheet on the system I have. It's > completely > stock with no modifications: > http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04286423.pdf
It will depend on if there is support for the sensors. You could try sensors-detect from lm-sensors to help you figure out what support there is. It might just be easier to either replace the fan or put a manual hardware fan control in the system. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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