2 Jan
2017
2 Jan
'17
14:28
On 28.12.2016 23:22, John Andersen wrote:
Oldish (ok, ancient) laptop, Dell Insperion 9400 with new install onto SSD.
Since the update of last Monday, fans come on full speed even at low-ish temps of 34C. Fans are either full speed or none at all.
When I first installed 42.2 I don't remember this being this way. My fans have several intermediate speeds.
What changed, and how can I get back to stepped and managed fan speeds? What package controls this these days?
Try to install the "sensors" package. Probably this fixes the problem. If not, try to run pwmconfig as root. This tries to find out, which fans cool down which sensors. Then it writes a config for fancontrol. fancontrol is a daemon that reacts on sensors and controls fan speed.