Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

[krzaq <krzakers@gmail.com>]

I couldnt find a good program to do this.
I've rewriten an old piece of code to work with i2c.
It's configurable and works quite well.
If you like I can email the source to you.

On 8/25/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/25/05, krzaq <krzakers@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/25/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >    Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines
> > > have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels,
> > > ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else noticed this? This
> > > observation comes from both a couple of Pundit-R's running
> > > mythfrontend as well as an Intel-based backend/general purpose
> > > machine.
> > >
> > >    What packages would I look at emerging to better monitor control
> > > that sort of thing?
> > Have you got an i2c chip on your board?
> > You can control fan speed from /sys/bus/i2c interface.
> 
> All the machines have i2c chips, but I don't find anything readable
> when I look at /sys/bus/i2c. For instance, on my oldest machine:
> 
> mark@godzilla ~ $ ls -al /sys/bus/i2c/devices/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 0 Aug 25 11:15 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 0 Aug 25 08:12 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 Aug 25 11:15 1-002d ->
> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/i2c-1/1-002d
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 Aug 25 11:15 1-0048 ->
> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/i2c-1/1-0048
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 Aug 25 11:15 1-0049 ->
> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/i2c-1/1-0049
> mark@godzilla ~ $
> 
> 
> mark@godzilla ~ $ ls -al /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/
> dev_driver/  i2c_adapter/ w83781d/     w83l785ts/
> mark@godzilla ~ $ ls -al /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/
> 
> Control of this stuff must be application based. Is there an app for
> monitoring temperature and fan speed and then setting it higher or
> lower, either by hand or automatically?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
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Karol Krzak

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