On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 06:37:07PM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > >I must use fancontrol to avoid getting mad for the noise. but when I > >reboot (e.g. to boot windows) fancontrol gets killed and restores fan > >to full speed. > If you need to control your fan speed under Windows, use a software > under Windows to do that.
I'd better say "(e.g. to go to single user mode, boot solaris/x86, boot freebsd...)" that is: I need to control my fan speed, fullstop. > There is a way, but it won't be supported by Debian and by the upstream > for the reason explained above, even as an option. Please also note that > your request is very specific, so I suggest you either to use a Windows > software to control the fan speed, or to modify fancontrol by yourself. > the only ways I found are: 1. send fancontrol SIGKILL manually. 2. hand-edit fancontrol. (which I did: but my changes will be overwritten at next package upgrade.) what about a non documented, deeply buried option to restore fans to a configurable percentage of full speed? regards. -- g.b.
