Re: Thinkfan

[Albin]

Hi again,

I was able to start it manually by doing the following:

$ sudo -i
# modprobe -r thinkpad_acpi
# modprobe thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1
$ sudo thinkfan /path/to/config-file

It would be nice, however, to have this done automatically at boot.

Cheers!

Albin

Sat, 21 May 2016 03:46:03 +0200:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to run the thinkfan program on my Thinkpad T60
> but I don't know how to make the acpi module load with the correct
> value, i.e.
> 
> >modprobe thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1  
> 
> If I simply run the above command with sudo, then
> 
> >thinkfan -n /path/to/config/file  
> 
> still produces this message:
> 
> >Module thinkpad_acpi doesn't seem to support fan_control
> >Cleaning up and resetting fan control.  
> 
> Does anyone here know what I need to do to make it work?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Albin
>