Re: Can not get fan control going in wheezy. Any help appreciated

2013-04-04 Thread Tim Long
Hi, I have solved the problem. At least on my laptop in the last week. As far as I can tell for that particular model of HP laptop has no way for the user to be able to control the fan. When I tried to be able to control the fan under windows Vista I downloaded the speedfan utility and it couldn

Re: Can not get fan control going in wheezy. Any help appreciated

2012-11-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 29 nov 12, 14:08:33, Tim Long wrote: > > I think that the problem is that the kernel can not figure out how to > control the fan. Is this the correct diagnosis or have I done a > misdiagnosis? In my google searches I found references to control > files like /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/device/fa

Can not get fan control going in wheezy. Any help appreciated

2012-11-28 Thread Tim Long
Hi all, I have just updated my laptop (HP Compaq 6730s) to Wheezy and I am diagnosing my first problem. The fan control deamon refuses to run and I think lm-sensors is unable to find/configure the fan control system. I suspect it a bug with the lm-sensors package. After the install I get the fol