Hi, everyone. I've recently discovered lm_sensors, pwmcontrol, and fancontrol. IIUC, they're all part of the same package. My CPU fan is under automatic control by the system hardware, but the case fans were fixed, and this system has allowed me to make the fan speeds vary with temperature, which has made my system a LOT quieter when it's relatively idle, yet I can launch compute-intensive apps and still maintain a cool system. Anyhow, I'm running into a problem with leaving the fans off. The fans take too long to come up to speed from stop. It's not a function of the fans themselves; when I power the system on, the snap from zero to full speed in less than a second. So my best guess is that fancontrol won't just SET the duty cycle but wants to gradually ramp it up or down. If I leave the fans on all the time at a setting of 100/255, then it's okay. But if I leave them off until they're needed, it takes way too long for the fans to even begin spinning. Is there a way I can control fancontrol's ramp-up rate? I wasn't able to find anything on this in the documentation. Thanks! -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project
