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ikaruga

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Registered: 2007-12-31

Posts: 10

i8k (dell fan) not working anymore

I recently did a fresh install on my old dell latitude c600.
From an arch version of about 1 yr ago, i8k/i8kmon was working just fine.
However, in this new arch version, the module i8k runs and the daemon i8kmon loads BUT it doesn't actually do anything -- the fan stays at the same setting no matter how hot the laptop gets.

dmesg:

i8k: unable to get SMM BIOS version

rc.conf:

MODULES=(ac battery fan button 3c59x mii rt2500pci ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-ac97-codec snd-maestro3 soundcore [b]i8k[/b] speedstep-smi)

modprobe.conf:

options i8k force=1

lastly, i8kmon.conf:

set config(0)   {{- 0}  -1  45  -1  45}
set config(1)   {{- 1}  41  70  41  70}
set config(2)   {{- 2}  60  80  60  80}
set config(3)   {{- 2}  70 128  75 128}

From the second line, the fan should turn on whenever it gets hotter than 41-degrees. However, it doesn't.

The fan does seem to be working because I can manually turn it on by running i8kmon (or by i8kctl - 1)

Any ideas?