Mark Misulich said the following on 02/21/2011 07:53 AM:
Opensuse 11.2 & 3 don't turn on the cooling fans to keep the laptop from overheating.
Could you expand on that?
Have you read FANCONTROL(8)? Have you included the kernel modules "fan" and "thermal"? Hi, 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. I also read the links on that page to sensors, and
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 09:00 -0500, Anton Aylward wrote: pwmconfig. As best as I can understand, Fancontrol is included in the program Sensors, which I installed via #zypper install sensors. Then, I found that fancontrol is a shell script that creates a fancontrol.conf file in /etc/fancontrol.conf , as I understand it. Trying to run it as a shell script doesn't work, it is contained in /usr/sbin/fancontrol. I cd'd to /usr/sbin and then did #./fancontrol or #sh ./fancontrol. Those commands didn't work,and after a little more research I found that I was supposed to run pwmconfig as a shell script, and that will set up the /etc/fancontrol.conf file. 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. I did a #zypper dup on my 11.3 installation on this laptop, and it installed a new kernel for me. As it was installing, it mentioned that it didn't find or include or install fan or thermal modules as part of the kernel installation. I forget which it said exactly, but the point is the modules aren't there. So, how do I install these modules? Also, what do I need to do to get some program to work to control the fan once the appropriate modules are installed? Thanks in advance. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org