packard bell centrino CPU fan speed is not enough

[Jeroen T. Bezemer]

Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> Jeroen T. Bezemer wrote:
>   
>>> I'd love to have some fan control, but what package is that?
>>>       
>> it is all in lm-sensors.
>>     
>
> lm-sensors, AFAIK, only monitors.
> how to setup the fan speed?
> BTW 'fancontrol' and 'pwmconfig' are not in the Gutsy repo...
>
> mihamina at pbmiha:~$ apt-cache search fancontrol
> mihamina at pbmiha:~$ apt-cache search pwmconfig
> mihamina at pbmiha:~$
>
> No results...
>
>   
Part of the package lm-sensors...
Synaptic
properties
installed files:

<quote>

.
/usr
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/isadump
/usr/sbin/isaset
/usr/sbin/fancontrol
/usr/sbin/pwmconfig
/usr/sbin/sensors-detect
/usr/share
/usr/share/lm-sensors
/usr/share/lm-sensors/sensors.conf.eg
/usr......<cut>

</quote>

for at least in hardy alpha 4, but almost certain it goes back to Dapper

so install lm-sensors

then sudo pwmconfig
and sudo fancontrol
(and read the manual for those)

-- 
Regards, Groeten, etc...

Jeroen Bezemer
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