For what it is worth it, I have run (and still do) various versions of
openSuSE and Knoppix on T430 without any strange fan control problems.
The only fan issue I have encountered was noise from fan's dead
bearings after heavy 3 years use, resolved by replacing the
fan/heatsink assembly.
I'd think,
Oh yes where are you located. The reason I have so little wind is the
topography,
I am down NE of a ridge about 100 ft with tall trees all around and there
are
ridges to the north of me that run quite a bit higher so I get little wind
down here.
It can be blowing a gale at treetop level and I get
I will have to give that a try. I am about fed up with WU, the acurite does
not
send wind direction data (at least from the console) when there is no wind
speed, WU then pushes you down as their stupid interface considers your
station "broke" because it does not show wind direction when there is no
I run Ubuntu Mate on a X-201 and a X-301, both of them run the fans, indeed
I have them listed in Gkrellm and can see the speed vary as load varies on
the machine. I have not really thought about it as seems that they are "just
there", but I will look and see what it is doing.
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016
On 12/31/2016 9:36 AM, Bill Barry wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 2:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I just purchased a used T430 to replace a R61 which had died due
>> to a fan failure.
>> I've installed a minimal Jessie including what the installer
>> considers standard utilities and a very basi
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 2:29 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I just purchased a used T430 to replace a R61 which had died due
> to a fan failure.
> I've installed a minimal Jessie including what the installer
> considers standard utilities and a very basic MATE DE.
>
> I used Synaptic to install "mate
I just purchased a used T430 to replace a R61 which had died due
to a fan failure.
I've installed a minimal Jessie including what the installer
considers standard utilities and a very basic MATE DE.
I used Synaptic to install "mate-system-tools".
An error message said "thinkfan post installation
