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allbluedream

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Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 155

Dell Vostro 1400 fan speed

I am not able to get lm_sensors to detect the fan speed, so I installed i8kmon and i8kutils and modprobe i8k force=1 to load the module.

Now the sensor applet tells me that my fan speed for Fan1 is around 27000 RPM and for Fan2 it's around 10000 RPM, while both cores of the CPU are around 50 C.

I've never thought of monitoring fan speed until today, but the figures just seem way too great...

I guess I am not doing it the right way. Any suggestions?