[ltp] Confused about ACPI fan control script

[Damien Challet]

On Tuesday 13 September 2005 11:06, Jaime Iniesta wrote:
> Hi, I want to try the script to control the fan (the one to solve the
> "always-on problem"), but after reading the wiki and so many mails with
> changes to the script, I'm a bit confused about it.
>
> Can anyone write down a stable script that would work on most TP ? I'm
> using an R52 TP.
>
> I went to http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/ACPI_fan_control_script and read the
> simple script, but I guess it won't work on my Ubuntu Hoary because when I
> run 'cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal', it says that the file does not exist, so
> it won't be able to read the temperature, I guess.

install ibm-acpi, see ibm-acpi.sf.net

Damien