laptop got hot, no fans! (acpi tools to check fans/temp/battery?)

Joel Young jdy at cs.brown.edu
Tue Aug 5 16:39:47 UTC 2003


From: "Mr. Adam ALLEN" <adam at dynamicinteraction.co.uk>
> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:17, Laur Ivan wrote:
>> afaik, Dell is known for bad DSDT's. A solution is to have a look at the 

> started re-compiling the kernel again. Still no fans.

IIRC, on the inspiron 8500, there isn't fan support in the DSDT.  But...
i8k works for fan management.

modprobe i8k --force=1

Joel





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