Re: Laptop ACPI fan control

2014-06-04 Thread John Hupp
In accord with http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2088043 I also tried these: $ echo -n active | sudo tee trip_point_1_type and $ sudo sh -c "echo -n active > trip_point_1_type Both of these also failed with Permission denied errors On 6/4/2014 5:54 PM, John Hupp wrote: With no current t

Re: Laptop ACPI fan control

2014-06-04 Thread John Hupp
With no current tools yet identified, I thought I'd see if I could manually change a trip point temp and type. From /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0 I tried: $ echo -n 40 > trip_point_1_temp bash: trip_point_1_temp: Permission denied $ echo -n active > trip_point_1_type bash: trip_point_1_temp:

Re: Laptop ACPI fan control

2014-06-04 Thread John Hupp
On 6/4/2014 5:02 PM, fari...@arcor.de wrote: lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com: I installed acpitool just to test-drive it. 'acpitool -e' reports everything, but it shows Fan and Thermal info as . It also reports concerning Show_CPU_Info: "could not read /proc/acpi/processor/. Make sur

Re: Laptop ACPI fan control

2014-06-04 Thread farinet
lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com: > I installed acpitool just to test-drive it. 'acpitool -e' reports > everything, but it shows Fan and Thermal info as . It > also reports concerning Show_CPU_Info: "could not read > /proc/acpi/processor/. Make sure your kernel has ACPI processor supp

Re: Laptop ACPI fan control

2014-06-04 Thread John Hupp
Further research shows that the use of /proc/acpi/thermal_zone has been deprecated for some time. The new location is /sys/class/thermal. I have not found any specific reference about the current state of usage of /proc/acpi/fan, but from some reading and kernel.org (below), I think it is pro

Laptop ACPI fan control

2014-06-01 Thread John Hupp
I posted some of this material in the thread "Lubuntu: acerhdf.conf," but am starting a new thread that better reflects what I'm trying to work out. According to my current understanding, fans may be controlled by: 1) BIOS/UEFI 2) Bus signalling to PWM controllers governing fans [the lm-sensors