Bug#882426: i8kutils: No effect on Latitude E7440

2018-04-08 Thread Jérémie Liénard
Hi, It's needed to override the BIOS control. You can take a look here : 'https://github.com/vitorafsr/i8kutils/issues/6' In the past you have to use "smm" to override the BIOS fan control (like here 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fan_speed_control#Dell_laptops'), but it's some ASM code

Bug#882426: i8kutils: No effect on Latitude E7440

2017-11-22 Thread Yvan Masson
Package: i8kutils Version: 1.43 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, My laptop's fan acting very strangely (it does not seem to be correlated with the temperature at all…), I tried using i8kutils. Unfortunately, it has absolutely no effects, even as root. Other users got it working on the same l