Thinkfan

Thinkfan

[Albin]

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

Re: Thinkfan

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 03:46:03AM +0200, Albin wrote:
> 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?

CC-ing Nicolas Goaziou, who added the package.

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Albin
> 

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
> 

Re: Thinkfan

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Albin <albin@fripost.org> skribis:

> 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.

A Shepherd service that starts ‘thinkfan’ would probably be enough (I
assume the kernel modules would automatically get loaded).  If you’d
like to give it a try, see:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Defining-Services.html

… and come on #guix to for feedback/help!  :-)

Ludo’.