Management of Thermal

[Richard Arends]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:02:45AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:

Norberto,

> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_control_fan_speed#Using_a_stock_kernel
> 
> and it worked a treat.
> 
> The fan kicked off nicely... and seriously aggressively
> when disengaged (similar to how the fan goes when you just power up the laptop).
> So it seems these guys + gals @ penguin land are onto something good.
> 
> Does anyone know if their work can be leveraged for *BSD ? or maybe this
> support is already in -CURRENT?

For my T60 i'm using a perl script i wrote some time ago. It's far from perfect, but
till now it works for me. You can find it at: http://www.unixguru.nl/made/ibm_fancontrol_fbsd.txt

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Regards,

Richard.