Re: Changing temperature trip points

Arndt Schoenewald
2002-11-05T16:40:48Z

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:35:56AM -0500, Edmund Rhudy wrote:
> [...]
> As it stands, I can currently turn the fan on manually with echo on >
> /proc/acpi/fan/FAN0/state (though not turn it off with echo off, for
> whatever reason), but I can't be constantly monitoring the temperature,
> [...]

Just FYI, "on" and "off" are not the right keywords here:

echo >/proc/acpi/fan/FAN0/state 0 turns the fan on
echo >/proc/acpi/fan/FAN0/state 3 turns the fan off

(On my machine, though, 3 doesn't turn the fan off, but makes it run
slower and thus more quiet.)

Arndt

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