Management of Thermal

[Norberto Meijome]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:03:31 -0400
"Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <alex.kovalenko at verizon.net> wrote:

> RabbitsDen# sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan=0
> dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: 1 -> 0
> RabbitsDen# sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level=7
> dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: 1 -> 7
> RabbitsDen# sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed
> dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: 4080
> RabbitsDen# sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level=3
> dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: 7 -> 3
> <after 10 seconds>
> RabbitsDen# sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed
> dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: 3310

Hi Alexandre,
Spot on :) great! 

> RabbitsDen# kldstat | grep ibm
>  5    1 0xc08ac000 4f74     acpi_ibm.ko
> 
> System is: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Sep 30 11:54:51 EDT 2007  
> 
> Hardware is: ThinkPad X60 (one of the first ones, with 32-bit dualcore
> CPU) -- sorry do not want to pry it from the dock -- if specific model
> is important, let me know and I will look.   

nah, that's ok - it seems it should be supported.... i may swap disks and try 7 a lot earlier than planned....

thanks :)
B
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