Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1046 mails)

[Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 10:00 -0500, Mark Misulich wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 16:39 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > * Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@xxxxxxxxx> [02-28-11 15:39]:
> > > I have read through the Fancontrol(8) page, but not by looking it up in
> > > man pages.  It won't show up that way in konsole.  I did find it by
> > > googling it.
> >
> > "man Fancontrol(8)" does not work as it is improper context. 
> > "Fancontrol(8)" references manpage 8 for fancontrol, ie:
> >   man 8 fancontrol
> > or, as there are no other pages:
> >   man fancontrol  
>
> I think that I was a fluke, I had the commands correct when I tried to
> access the man pages and they didn't appear.  They are available now,
> however.
> > ...
> > > I tried to run the pwmconfig shell script, but the result was that it
> > > gave the output that there were no sensors controlled by pwm.  So it
> > > didn't set up the fancontrol.conf file.
> >
> > you need to setup "sensors" first  :^)
> >  
> I ran the command #sensors-detect and set up sensors, however the result
> is still the same when I try to run #pwmconfig  Here is the readout:
>
> # pwmconfig revision 5770 (2009-09-16)
> This program will search your sensors for pulse width modulation (pwm)
> controls, and test each one to see if it controls a fan on
> your motherboard. Note that many motherboards do not have pwm
> circuitry installed, even if your sensor chip supports pwm.
>
> We will attempt to briefly stop each fan using the pwm controls.
> The program will attempt to restore each fan to full speed
> after testing. However, it is ** very important ** that you
> physically verify that the fans have been to full speed
> after the program has completed.
>
> /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed
>
>
>
> Also, there is no /etc/fancontrol.conf file created.  
>
> By the way, I am trying this both on 11.4 and 11.3 on this same laptop,
> and get the same results when I try to run this command.  Am I missing a
> step between running sensors-detect and pwmconfig?

I am running a zypper dup on the 11.3 installation, and it is updating
the kernel from the previous kernel.  I found this output in the course
of the update, and wonder if it is pertinent:

Retrieving: kernel-default-base-2.6.38-rc6.16.1.x86_64.rpm [done (163.5
KiB/s)]
Installing: kernel-default-base-2.6.38-rc6.16.1 [done]
Additional rpm output:

Kernel image:   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-rc6-16-default
Initrd image:   /boot/initrd-2.6.38-rc6-16-default
Root
device:    /dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MJA2320BH_G2_K935T9928D9G-part10
(/dev/sda10) (mounted on / as ext3)
Resume
device:  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MJA2320BH_G2_K935T9928D9G-part5
(/dev/sda5)
modprobe: Module thermal not found.
WARNING: no dependencies for kernel module 'thermal' found.
modprobe: Module processor not found.
WARNING: no dependencies for kernel module 'processor' found.
modprobe: Module fan not found.
WARNING: no dependencies for kernel module 'fan' found.
modprobe: Module usbhid not found.
WARNING: no dependencies for kernel module 'usbhid' found.
Kernel Modules: usbcore pcmcia_core pcmcia mmc_core ssb ohci-hcd
ehci-hcd uhci-hcd 
Features:       block usb resume.userspace resume.kernel


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