15 Apr
2014
15 Apr
'14
9:55 p.m.
* Vitor Augusto vitorafsr@gmail.com [140412 03:04]:
Hello.
I'm searching for any information about where (memory, IO port, etc.) the status (on or off) of the fans of a laptop are stored. Anything is very welcome! This is to improve the compatibility of i8kutils package at Linux. The site of the development is "https://launchpad.net/i8kutils".
Hi Vitor,
FAN speed is usually controlled by the EC / SuperIO. There is no generally available unified interface for that like Dell's SMM interface. You might want to look at the ACPI interface to get something more unified. Controlling hardware directly will be a lot of work for all the devices out there.
Stefan