Fan Control

Tris.Phillips · External Since: Feb 15, 2006 Posts: 5

Hi,

I might well be being paranoid, but...
I have just got myself a new Philips x60. The first thing I did was to
get Linux installed.
My current distro of choice is Suse 10, which supported my display,
audio and wireless adapter with no issues whatsoever. Fantastic.
However, I don't ever seem to hear the fan, and the box gets pretty
hot. I have booted into windows and the fan runs.
Shouldn't the BIOS control cooling?

Any suggestions appreciated!

Cheers,

Tris

Dennis · External Since: Feb 05, 2006 Posts: 34

ACPI should control your fan.

Ensure that your kernel has enabled support for this ... and if it is
modular then ensure that the modules are loaded (should be at least thermal
and fan ...)

Tris.Phillips.TakeThisOut@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I might well be being paranoid, but...
> I have just got myself a new Philips x60. The first thing I did was to
> get Linux installed.
> My current distro of choice is Suse 10, which supported my display,
> audio and wireless adapter with no issues whatsoever. Fantastic.
> However, I don't ever seem to hear the fan, and the box gets pretty
> hot. I have booted into windows and the fan runs.
> Shouldn't the BIOS control cooling?
>
> Any suggestions appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tris

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Tris.Phillips · External Since: Feb 15, 2006 Posts: 5

Hi,

Upon running acpi the system says that thermal is not supported...
Shouldnt the BIOS control the fan to some extent?

Thanks,

Tris

Reinhard Gimbel · External Since: Aug 30, 2005 Posts: 266

Hello community !

Tris.Phillips.RemoveThis@gmail.com wrote:

> Upon running acpi the system says that thermal is not supported...
> Shouldnt the BIOS control the fan to some extent?

Hmm, how it is told that "thermal" is not supported ?

I had to add both "thermal" and "fan" to the "initrd".

You might accomplish that by adding "thermal" and "fan" to the variable
"INITRD_MODULES" in [YaST] - [System] - [Editor for /etc/sysconfig
files]. You need to look for "initrd" as soon as you started that YaST
component.

There is also a chance that the ACPI support of your maschine is broken.
In this case two kernel boot options might be worth a try.

acpi=noirq
pci=noacpi

Do tests with each and the combination of both.

BTW: There are SUSE related NGs as well. news:alt.linux.suse and/or
news:alt.linux.os.suse
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Best regards, Reinhard.

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Tris.Phillips · External Since: Feb 15, 2006 Posts: 5

Thanks Reinhard, Ill give that a go.
Tris