Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-14 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: I got no bright ideas on that one :-( Monitors and X and HAL and udev and mesa and nvidia and ATI are things that always JustWorked(tm) for me everywhere... Me too. I know the monitor works with my old rig so it is good to that point anyway. I also know the puter a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:27 on Tuesday 14 December 2010, Dale did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 10:57 on Tuesday 14 December 2010, Neil > > > > Bothwick did opine thusly: > >> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:15:21 -0600, Dale wrote: > You're assum

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-14 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 10:57 on Tuesday 14 December 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:15:21 -0600, Dale wrote: You're assuming the problem was with HAL rather the the drivers of the hardware it was trying to work with...

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-14 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:15:21 -0600, Dale wrote: You're assuming the problem was with HAL rather the the drivers of the hardware it was trying to work with... So the PS/2 drivers have been working for years and all of a sudden hal comes along and breaks them

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 10:57 on Tuesday 14 December 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:15:21 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > You're assuming the problem was with HAL rather the the drivers of the > > > hardware it was trying to work with... > > > > So the PS/2 drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:15:21 -0600, Dale wrote: > > You're assuming the problem was with HAL rather the the drivers of the > > hardware it was trying to work with... > So the PS/2 drivers have been working for years and all of a sudden hal > comes along and breaks them? Then on top of that, rem

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-13 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:42:51 -0600, Dale wrote: Of course, it's not like you ever had problems with your mouse and keyboard drivers and HAL... And I got rid of hal too. If hal had worked, I'd be using it. It didn't so I removed it. Nothing complicated wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:42:51 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Of course, it's not like you ever had problems with your mouse and > > keyboard drivers and HAL... > And I got rid of hal too. If hal had worked, I'd be using it. It > didn't so I removed it. Nothing complicated with that. You're assuming t

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 13 December 2010 16:40:13 Dale wrote: > Maybe I found one thing I am lucky in. ;-) don't worry, the luck will run out sooner or later ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-13 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:58:54 -0600, Dale wrote: Rule of thumb: everything you need to boot built in, everything else modules. Results in the least problems. Well, having them built in has worked all these years. Of course, it's not like you ever had

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-13 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Monday 13 December 2010 10:58:54 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2010 20:34:22 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: That comes from lm-senso

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:58:54 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Rule of thumb: everything you need to boot built in, everything else > > modules. Results in the least problems. > Well, having them built in has worked all these years. Of course, it's not like you ever had problems with your mouse and keyboar

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 13 December 2010 10:58:54 Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sunday 12 December 2010 20:34:22 Dale wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: > That comes from lm-sensors. Hmmm. Since I have my stuff built > into

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-13 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2010 20:34:22 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: That comes from lm-sensors. Hmmm. Since I have my stuff built into the kernel, can I still use that or would they clash so

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 13 December 2010 15:54:02 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Rule of thumb: everything you need to boot built in, everything else > modules. Results in the least problems. Good thinking. My rule of thumb has been to compile-in everything that has to be present on every run and everything el

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 12 December 2010 20:34:22 Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: > >> That comes from lm-sensors. Hmmm. Since I have my stuff built into > >> the > >> kernel, can I still use that or would they clash somehow? > >> > >> Also, this i

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/12/2010 06:34 PM, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: >> >>> That comes from lm-sensors. Hmmm. Since I have my stuff built into the >>> kernel, can I still use that or would they clash somehow? >>> >>> Also, this is a desktop not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-12 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: That comes from lm-sensors. Hmmm. Since I have my stuff built into the kernel, can I still use that or would they clash somehow? Also, this is a desktop not a laptop just in case it matters. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-12 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 12/12, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: === > a) building the sensor stuff into the kernel is stupid > b) yes === However, it seems to me there is a trend that drivers are not contained so much in add-on packages, as before, but are getting into the main kernel tree. I think the developmen

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:20:27 Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Saturday 11 December 2010 22:52:24 Dale wrote: > >> HI, > >> > >> I got everything installed on the new rig. Trying to sort out some > >> "kinks" now. I notice that Gigabyte has software for windoze to > >> cont

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-12 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 11 December 2010 22:52:24 Dale wrote: HI, I got everything installed on the new rig. Trying to sort out some "kinks" now. I notice that Gigabyte has software for windoze to control the fan speed and such. I use gkrellm to monitor them but was wonde

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 11 December 2010 22:52:24 Dale wrote: > HI, > > I got everything installed on the new rig. Trying to sort out some > "kinks" now. I notice that Gigabyte has software for windoze to control > the fan speed and such. I use gkrellm to monitor them but was wondering > if there is a Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-12 Thread Andrea Conti
> It's a Gigabyte 770T series mobo. It uses the it8720 chip. You can try writing directly to the pwm control inputs under the platform device node (i.e. /sys/devices/platform/it87.xxx/pwm*); these usually take 8-bit (0-255) values. E.g. to set pwm1 to a value of 127 you just do echo 127 >/sys/d

[gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-11 Thread Dale
HI, I got everything installed on the new rig. Trying to sort out some "kinks" now. I notice that Gigabyte has software for windoze to control the fan speed and such. I use gkrellm to monitor them but was wondering if there is a Linux package that does the same. Is there such a thing? I