Mark Misulich said the following on 02/21/2011 11:38 AM:
Have you read FANCONTROL(8)? No, I haven't read that. Would you expand on this so that I can understand what you are referring to? I need to be educated about this.
That is the notation for a MAN PAGE. It means the FANCONTROL page in section 8 You can get at it by the CLI command man 8 fancontrol I found it by using the 'apropos' command which searches the titles of man pages for the keywords you supply. As you might have gathered from y posts, when faced with an issue I first check the man pages, then the supplied documentation an eventually I "go google" if that fails. First I look for the site of the developer, then for people what have had a similar problem. If this doesn't solve things I'll ask here, but at this point I'm pretty well read on the background. I know there are people who turn first off all to the source code. Personally I've never found the need for that. All that being said .... I'm running one of the 'desktop replacement' laptops. Big buqqer, dual CPU, big screen, sucks power, grows hot. I run it at 60-75 degrees and have thermal shutdown at 81. For reasons that I don't understand, the installation on this laptop DID NOT include the 'fan' kernel module. I had to add that to the config manually. I'm guessing that it was 'power saving' strategy. -- The emphasis should be on "why" we do a job - W. Edwards Deming -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org