There is a program called i8kfan that can be used to control the fan in Linux. I use Debian on my old Dell laptop but a rpm version is available at:
http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/i8kutils-1.17-2dv....
The project home page is at:
http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html
The Linux port tarballs are at:
http://people.debian.org/~dz//i8k/
On Monday 28 April 2003 07:14 pm, Landy wrote:
does anyone know if the thermo cooling fan on the dell laptop works with linux?
i notice the laptop is not turning the thermo cooling fan
I have the opposite problem on an I8500 ( running 8.2 ) -- fan is on far too often. I dld i8kutils 1.8 but lack of knowledge has stumped me. Installed all the sources and headers that I can think of and tried to insert the module as per instructions (" By default the module compiles without symbol versions and can thus be loaded on any 2.4.x kernel with "insmod -f i8k.o".) but I still get error message : Warning: kernel-module version mismatch i8k.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.15 while this kernel is version 2.4.20-4GB Warning: loading i8k.o will taint the kernel: forced load See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules i8k.o: init_module: No such device Which leaves me back where I started. Does anyone have any suggestions? TIA Francesco