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binaryplease

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Registered: 2012-04-11

Posts: 16

Laptop Fan Lenovo IdeaPad Y500

Hi,

I' trying to control the laptop fan on a Lenovo Y500.
I followed the wiki article on fancontrol and also tryied tp-fand, but both dont seem to find any fans.

My laptop is never going into full fan speed, one of the fans isn't working at all I think.
I made a stress test with arch and windows and compared the results.

Are there any other options I can try?

 
binaryplease@deep-thought ~ % sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Physical id 0:  +50.0°C  (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 0:         +46.0°C  (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1:         +48.0°C  (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 2:         +50.0°C  (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 3:         +49.0°C  (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:         +0.0°C  (crit = +127.0°C)

pkg-temp-0-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +50.0°C  

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: Laptop Fan Lenovo IdeaPad Y500

Is the machine supported by thinkpad_acpi? If not, this may be the reason why tp-fand is not working:

http://code.google.com/p/tpfanco/