i8k handles the problem for the i8k's - it might work for you. There is
also a dell laptop option in the kernel for a module that can be loaded
(its needed for these utilities) and it can be accessed directly
via /proc if the i8kutils do not cut it. Dell and their bloody broken
ACPI ...
BillK
rattus rpm # emerge i8k -s
Searching...
[ Results for search key : i8k ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]
* app-laptop/i8kutils
Latest version available: 1.25
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 39 kB
Homepage: http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/
Description: Dell Inspiron and Latitude utilities
License: GPL-2
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:14 +0300, Catalin Trifu wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am having a very nasty problem. My Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop
> (P4 3.06 GHz) runs at very high temperature (77 degrees C) and in the room are
> only 20.
> I looked around at how to get the FAN speed up at max but lm_sensors
> simply
> doesn't want to get installed.
> ACPI does not work properly on this machines (it's a known problem).
> I am running on ck-sources (tried gentoo-sources and same result). I
> know the fan
> is not spinning at full speed (I ran the tests from Dell).
> Does anyone knoe how I could get the FAN up to speed ?
>
> Thanks,
> Catalin
>
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