Toshiba Laptop

[Gary Allen Vollink]

Gabriel Mititica wrote:

>I have an old Toshiba Laptop Satellite 1800.
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>However, the fan seems not to work.
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As the shameful user of a Toshiba Satellite 1800-S207, running FC2 and 
the 2.6.8 kernel (part of the up2date default selected updates), I can 
assure you that my fan works as expected (speeding up and slowing down 
according to average CPU usage) just as it did when the laptop was 
running Slackware 9 and *shivers* Windows XP before it.

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>How can I controll it (if possible)?
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The kernel should already know how to deal with the fan as part of the 
ACPI code.

>If I upgrade the BIOS will help (and to which
>version)? (The one installed is 1.1 and any attempts
>with >=1.3 from Toshiba website failed)
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I don't know what version of BIOS I have, but whenever moving BIOS 
versions, it's typically advisable to go to the most recent version that 
Toshiba (or whatever your PC manufacturer) has to offer.  I can be quite 
certain that the BIOS on this computer is from at least 3 years ago.

>Regards and thank you in advance,
>Gabriel
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>PS: I tried to install the ``Toshiba TCL Key and
>Button Monitor'' from
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>http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclkeymon/
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>but it complains that tk is missing the ``Extras''
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