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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

/proc/acpi/fan empty. Is it normal?

I was messing around with torsmo and wmpower dockapp.  I noticed that they can't detect the fan.  The reason being that the /proc/acpi/fan directory is empty. Is it normal? I am runnin acpid and  /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/ tells me that the temp is OK (61 C)
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phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: /proc/acpi/fan empty. Is it normal?

yes - I have 3 machines that don't detect fan settings... the i2c+lm_sensors stuff should handle that, but I never bothered...

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: /proc/acpi/fan empty. Is it normal?

OK.  On my last laptop, I couldn't make lm_sensors work so I eventually gave up. I might give lm_sensors another try though.