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    Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

    Sony Vaio 2.8 ghz p4

    temp mon shows 135F.
    fan is moving i think coudl eb HDD hum <<
    my read out on sensors = " no sensors found " how do i fix this?
    Is there a nice gui type thing for fan control . Im very familiar wiht linux but, this lappy is my life and rather not kill it.

    Any hint / tips / tricks?
    Laptop- Sony Vaio
    CPU- 2.8Ghz
    Ram- 512mb

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    Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

    If you can't be sure if what you are hearing is hd or fan hum, you have to ask yourself if you really need to lower the fan speed at all. Also, as stated, if you aren't a 110% sure of what you are doing, don't try this. It can kill your CPU if you aren't careful.

    Having said that, it sounds like you haven't installed lm-sensors yet. Please check out the first post and tell me where you get stuck.

    See here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2780

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    Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

    I will now generate the commands needed to load the I2C modules.
    Sometimes, a chip is available both through the ISA bus and an I2C bus.
    ISA bus access is faster, but you need to load an additional driver module
    for it. If you have the choice, do you want to use the ISA bus or the
    I2C/SMBus (ISA/smbus)?


    is were i get worried.
    Like i said lappy = my life ...
    But all the great peoele on the forums help me so much.
    Also is there a "gui" type thing someoen has made?
    To switch fan though modes?
    Laptop- Sony Vaio
    CPU- 2.8Ghz
    Ram- 512mb

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    Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

    I choose ISA..

    it looked to work.. but..

    nothing works <.<
    I dont wnat to lower the speed.. i want to be abel to change it.
    Make fan speed faster would be nice.
    Last edited by ExMachina; August 12th, 2006 at 10:27 PM.
    Laptop- Sony Vaio
    CPU- 2.8Ghz
    Ram- 512mb

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    Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

    why isn't this howto put on the wiki? http://www.wiki.ubuntu.com It should be there.

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    Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

    Quote Originally Posted by ExMachina View Post
    I choose ISA..

    it looked to work.. but..

    nothing works <.<
    I dont wnat to lower the speed.. i want to be abel to change it.
    Make fan speed faster would be nice.
    If you haven't changed your fan speed, it's set to maximum. You can only lower the fan speed with this program. If you don't want to lower your speed, don't use it!

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    Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

    Quote Originally Posted by fakie_flip View Post
    why isn't this howto put on the wiki? http://www.wiki.ubuntu.com It should be there.
    I don't have the time right now! Next weekend at the earliest.

    The first post needs to be updated (the code patch is no longer needed) before it can go in the wiki.

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    Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

    running fiesty (dist-upgraded, not a clean install) on a Shutlte with a nForce2 chipset

    for whatever reason, my pwm1_enable file already had the value "1" in it and the permissions were -r--r--r-- so there was a permission denied error. chmod'ing that caused an I/O error.

    I edited /usr/sbin/fancontrol and commented out the calls to pwmdisable and pwmenable and it works now.

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    Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

    Hello,
    I can't get pwmconfig to work. It is responding with the following error mentioned earlier in this thread:
    Code:
    /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed
    Now, I have tried to change the code as mentioned earlier, but I guess I have a later version because the code around line 68 does not look like that mentioned earlier:

    Code:
    MATCH='*/pwm[1-9]'
    PWM=`echo $MATCH`
    if [ "$SYSFS" = "1" -a "$MATCH" = "$PWM" ]
    then
            # Deprecated naming scheme (used in kernels 2.6.5 to 2.6.9)
            MATCH='*/fan[1-9]_pwm'
            PWM=`echo $MATCH`
    fi
    if [ "$MATCH" = "$PWM" ]
    then
            echo $0: 'There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed'
            exit 1
    fi
    I looked for files similar to "pwm[1-9]" or "fan[1-9]" and could only find these:
    Code:
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-05-23 20:08 fan1_div
    -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-05-23 20:00 fan1_input
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-05-23 20:08 fan1_min
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-05-23 19:20 fan2_div
    -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-05-23 20:00 fan2_input
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-05-23 20:08 fan2_min
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-05-23 20:08 fan3_div
    -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-05-23 20:00 fan3_input
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-05-23 20:08 fan3_min
    I can see output from Sensors:

    Code:
    dual:~$ sensors
    as99127f-i2c-0-2d
    Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at e800
    VCore 1:   +1.71 V  (min =  +1.54 V, max =  +1.95 V)              
    VCore 2:   +1.71 V  (min =  +1.54 V, max =  +1.95 V)              
    +3.3V:     +3.31 V  (min =  +2.96 V, max =  +3.63 V)              
    +5V:       +4.97 V  (min =  +4.49 V, max =  +5.51 V)              
    +12V:     +11.92 V  (min =  +9.55 V, max = +14.41 V)              
    -12V:      -2.10 V  (min =  -4.07 V, max =  -0.32 V)              
    -5V:       -1.13 V  (min =  -1.76 V, max =  -0.82 V)              
    fan1:     4500 RPM  (min =   -1 RPM, div = 2)                     
    fan2:     4687 RPM  (min = 56250 RPM, div = 8)                     
    fan3:        0 RPM  (min = 7031 RPM, div = 2)                     
    M/B Temp:    +41°C  (high =   +70°C, hyst =   -32°C)          
    CPU Temp:  +37.5°C  (high =   +67°C, hyst =   +60°C)          
    temp3:     +39.0°C  (high =   +67°C, hyst =   +60°C)          
    vid:      +1.750 V  (VRM Version 8.2)
    alarms:   
    beep_enable:
              Sound alarm enabled
    Please if anyone can offer any pointers? The only solution at the moment is almost unthinkable: returning to Windows where my fans are very quiet.

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    Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

    starfry: that means you don't have any PWM enabled hardware, or the hardware you have has no linux driver. you simply can't use fancontrol because your hardware does not have fan speed control support.

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