[ltp] [PATCH] In-kernel automatic fan control

Yury Polyanskiy linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:41:32 -0500


Honey,

'full-speed' is the same as "level disengaged" of fan-speed patch.

Yury.


On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 02:26 +0000, honey wrote:

> H Yury,
> 
> When I mentioned scripts above, I was just referring the one of the many
> fan speed management scripts on the wiki.  The "full-speed" option was
> implemented in a patch to ibm_acpi sent to this list some months ago -
> searching for "full-speed" or similar in the list archives should find
> it.  It pushes fan speed near 5000 rpm on my T40, and is invaluable for
> a few seconds burst of cold air when things get really hot.
> 
> Having patched ibm_acpi with the patch sent to this list, I then edited
> one of the scripts above for three temperature points: LOW, HIGH and
> BOILING (with hysteris for each).  It would be really nice if this was
> implemented in some of the better scripts available, including ones that
> take more than CPU temp into account.
> 
> Maybe it's already incorporated in version 12a mentioned by others
> here - you'll know if the above command works.  If not, I'd ask again
> if Borislav would like to incorporate it in ibm_acpi official?
> 
> Honey