Re: Laptop fan control

2012-12-25 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 06:44:49PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > just make sure, that the cooler free of dust. After some time, there is a lot > of dust in the cooler, which is clogging the air exit. Hi Hans, Pretty sure the cooler is free of dust now. > > If this is ok, you might want to

Re: Laptop fan control

2012-12-25 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:33:04AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > Hey,Daniel Hey Jack, > > Try i8kutils, Dell laptops do their own thing!! Thanks! It seems to be for latitude and inspiron, but I have vostro. I will try it anyway. Thanks, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Laptop fan control

2012-12-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 22. Dezember 2012 schrieb Jack Schneider: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:33:31 +1100 > > Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm using a Dell vostro 3350 machine. > > > > At times I feel the intensity of the fan is unnecessarily high. > > > > This occurs when for example using firefo

Re: Laptop fan control

2012-12-22 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:33:31 +1100 Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using a Dell vostro 3350 machine. > > At times I feel the intensity of the fan is unnecessarily high. > > This occurs when for example using firefox or watching flash. > > It seems most times when I restart the gui t

Laptop fan control

2012-12-22 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hello, I'm using a Dell vostro 3350 machine. At times I feel the intensity of the fan is unnecessarily high. This occurs when for example using firefox or watching flash. It seems most times when I restart the gui the fan returns to normal speed. This is a concern because it obviously wil

Re: kernel module i8k.ko - laptop fan control - help needed!

2009-01-10 Thread Vladimir Komendantsky
Hi Chris, Thanks for reply. > What does syslog say, i.e. > dmesg | grep i8k > > I have a Dell Latitude and: > dmesg | grep i8k > i8k: unable to get SMM BIOS version > In my case the dmesg output is the same. But this doesn't stop i8k from loading even without "force=1". > Also have a look at

Re: kernel module i8k.ko - laptop fan control - help needed!

2009-01-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:21:11PM +, Vladimir Komendantsky wrote: > /proc/i8k: > 1.0 A13 7P1R04J 43 0 0 0 0 -1 -22 What does syslog say, i.e. dmesg | grep i8k > Some time earlier I tried to use dellfand with a similar result: it read > parameters from the BIOS but did not wrote to it. > >

kernel module i8k.ko - laptop fan control - help needed!

2009-01-07 Thread Vladimir Komendantsky
Hi, The module i8k.ko provides access to certain BIOS functions such as fan speed on certain Dell laptops including Inspirons and Lattitudes. Does anyone know whether this module and the associated packages such as i8kutils are maintained at present? I have a testing issue in Debian lenny amd64.