On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > > my laptop sometimes shut down abruptely. > It seems that it is a thermal problem. > > I can hear the fan spinning when there is a lot of cpu activity; but > when there is a disk activity the fan remain silent.
[...] > There is any method to control the fan or at least to force the fan to > maximum speed? My fan works fine by itself now (Thinkpad X31), but I recall needing to use the command echo 3 > /proc/acpi/[SOMEPATH]/fan on Etch as root to turn my fan off when it became stuck on full after suspending. I could also use values from 0-3 to set it to different speeds. I now use Lenny and the fan file has a slightly different path and more detailed content, e.g.: status: enabled speed: 0 level: auto However, now I find I can't write to this file directly, even as root, who supposedly has write permissions! This I don't get. Anyhow, if you can find your /proc/acpi/.../fan file, see what's in it and change the value of the fan speed (if you can write to it), that may work. HTH, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
