-----Original Message----- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Joachim Schipper Sent: 10 June 2009 11:09 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: controlling the fan?
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:53:39AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Scenario: 4.5 on MSI Wind PC, everything works. I use this machine > because it is relatively low-power and quiet. > > The fan rotation changes with how much the CPU is used > (could someone translate this into the real thing please?), > without me doing anything about it on the OS level. > > Unless I run something heavy, such as launching mozilla, the fan keeps > pretty quiet (below the level of noise that would annoy me), but still, > it could be quiter. Is there a way to control the fan RPM from the OS? > (Unsurprisingly, hw.sensors.adt0.fan0 is readonly.) This also doesn't answer your question, but have you though about setting the BIOS, you can set fan speed settings to keep it at a certain RPM and so forth
