On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 12:55 -0400, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 12:43 -0400, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 08:32:02 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 11:19 -0400, Lars Noodén wrote: > > > > I can set the fan speed manually. e.g.: > > > > > > > > echo 3500 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/device/fan1_output > > > > > > > > That helps some. > > > > > > > If you can do that, you should be able to set up fancontrol to > > > automatically control fan speed based on system temperatures. > > > > This won't work, as fancontrol wants pwmX attributes which the applesmc > > driver doesn't implement. > > > Yes, you are right - it won't work without patching it to use > fanX_output and to accept larger values for the limits. > > Wonder how this works for other Apple systems. Maybe there is an > Apple-specific script out there to control fan speed. > > > > There is another sysfs attribute - fanX_manual. I don't find driver > > > documentation, so I have no idea what it is doing. The name indicates > > > that it might set manual vs. automatic fan control. What is it set to in > > > your system ? From the code, looks like it should be 0 or 1. Try to > > > toggle it and see what happens - after all, it can not get worse ;). > > > > Might be worth looking at files fanX_min, _max and _safe too. Too bad > > there doesn't seem to be any documentation available for all these > > non-standard attributes :( > > > Here is some info from the web about the problem. See > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-981280.html. > The above link points to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookPro/SantaRosaFanControl which provides a script to control fan speed on MAC systems. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
