ACPI fan control for laptop

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 17:41, Bill Johnson wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I recently posted a question about my hard drive clicking and received 
> some help. Thanks to all who replied.  I believe my problem may be caused 
> by my laptop running hotter with Fedora Core 1 than it does with Windows 
> XP.  I notice that the fan very seldom runs under FC1, but runs more 
> frequently under windows.
> 
> Is there a way to adjust this?  Is this an ACPI issue?  Can anybody point 
> me to some help on controlling the fan under Fedora Core 1?

Depends.. Which laptop are u using?

Dell? -> I8kutils
Toshiba -> You have that in the kernel too. 
Asus -> Same as Toshiba

no experience with Toshiba and Asus..

Lots with D600.
Err.. Used to be I can control the fan, but after upgrading the the A09
bios, it doesn't work no more.
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