Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Nov 2011 17:43:21 +0100 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: [lm-sensors] Hardware running hot and without the fan |
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On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 08:32:02 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 11:19 -0400, Lars Noodén wrote: > > I can set the fan speed manually. e.g.: > > > > echo 3500 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/device/fan1_output > > > > That helps some. > > > If you can do that, you should be able to set up fancontrol to > automatically control fan speed based on system temperatures.
This won't work, as fancontrol wants pwmX attributes which the applesmc driver doesn't implement.
> There is another sysfs attribute - fanX_manual. I don't find driver > documentation, so I have no idea what it is doing. The name indicates > that it might set manual vs. automatic fan control. What is it set to in > your system ? From the code, looks like it should be 0 or 1. Try to > toggle it and see what happens - after all, it can not get worse ;).
Might be worth looking at files fanX_min, _max and _safe too. Too bad there doesn't seem to be any documentation available for all these non-standard attributes :(
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