[ltp] temperature control and disengaged fan speed

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:51:19 -0300


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, David Abrahams wrote:
> would have been best if the CPU speed had been forced to its minimum.
> 
> Anyone know of a way to achieve all that?

You will need to do it by force in userspace, i.e. you will have to monitor
the temperatures reported by thinkpad-acpi/ibm-acpi with a script, and
change kernel governors (to force lowest cpu speed) and order
thinkpad-acpi/ibm-acpi to switch the fan to disengaged mode.

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