Hi Kevin, > My fan speed is at the highest possible speed when booted into linux on > this system(same as speed during POST). Load is 0.00 and x-windows is > not installed. Winxp has a no audible fan noise unless doing high > computation but never as high as with linux. So, I decided to figure > out how to tweak the fan speed. > > 'sensors-detect' found SMSC 47M15x/192 and I found that in the drivers > section of the website, I(think) can use the 'smsc47m1' driver. So I > tried it: > ~]# modprobe smsc47m1 force_addr=0x0800 > FATAL: Error inserting smsc47m1 > (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp/kernel/drivers/i2c/chips/smsc47m1.ko) > : No such device Support for the SMSC LPC47M15x/192 chip was added to the smsc47m1 driver in Linux 2.6.13. Your kernel is older so the support is simply not there. Unfortunately, there is no way to force a device with that kind of driver. So your only hope is a newer kernel (or a self compiled kernel from patched sources). -- Jean Delvare
