Hi Sergio, On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Sergio Bruder <sergio at bruder.com.br> wrote: > Ive recently builded a (almost) fanless little server around a EPIA > LN10000EG with a VIA C7 1GHZ fanless, a little case with a 60W PSU and > a desktop (3.5") HD. The case has a small and loud fan, that I plugged > in as cpu fan. > > Im using a C7-compiled-for version of Ubuntu 8.04 server kernel > (2.6.24-17-server). > > Ive compiled the kernel for C7, using e_powersaver, acpi=force, > hpet=force (powertop is showing 2-3 wakeups per second, cool, but my > cpu isnt entering C3, only C2. but that is another problem). > > VT1211 has pwm fan control, but I dont know what temperature is > driving the "auto control", and the unique variation that I can get is > fully on with auto control turned off and completely turned off with > auto control turned on (echo 2). So I hacked a little cronjob that > turns auto control on and off to indirectly turn fan off and on using > the temp2 result of sensors (the unique temperature that appears sane) > until a better solution is found. > > My goal is to configure the fan control map to never trigger "full > trottle" of the fan. > > What is the temperature that are controlling the fan auto control? > Have you read Documentation/hwmon/vt1211 in the kernel source tree? Can you send the output of 'sensors' and 'grep "" /sys/class/hwmon*/device/*''? ...juerg > Sergio Bruder > > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20080603/87d10538/attachment.html
