Thanks this trick works!!!! Henry On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:19 +0200, Rudolf Marek wrote: > Hello, > > It seems the best would be to disable the fancontrol script it must load from /etc/ > you can see it active with ps ax command. > > Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with fancontrol stuff and I dont know your Linux distribution but here is general steps: > > Steps for manual control: > > 1) disable (or delete fancontrol script that loads on startup of computer) > 2) go to /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-290/ (the directory 0-290 might be different, just inspect every directory in devices/ and find that one with "pwm1" ... files) > 3) to change fan speed do: echo 128 > pwm1 (or pwm2 etc depends how is your fan connected, values are from 0=stop 255=fullspeed) > 4) you can use pwmconfig to tell you the correlation values between fanspeed and PWM value. > 5) put the echo ... > /sys/bus/.... line somewhere to startup scripts. > > I hope this helps. > > Regards > > Rudolf >
