2 Breezed is a small daemon to control the speed of the fan,
3 depending on the current temperature of the computer. I have tested
4 it only on a Thinkpad X61s and T420s.
8 Before installing, you must have a configuration file in
11 Two are currently provided in the archive, and it corresponds to
12 the settings *I* picked for my Lenovo X61s and T420s. I have no
13 idea if these settings are safe on these laptops (I guess so, since
14 I have been using them for three years on the X61s and six months
15 on the T420s and it works perfectly), and I suspect they are not
16 safe for another laptop. If you want to give it a try, just
18 cp breezed_Lenovo_X61s.conf /etc/breezed.conf
20 Then, you can install the daemon simply with
28 See the man page for details about the algorithm, arguments and
33 On Thinkpads you have to allow the module thinkpad_acpi to set the
34 fan speed, which is not allowed by default in Debian. To do so, you
35 have to have a file /etc/modprobe.d/thinkpad_acpi.modprobe
38 ---------------------------- snip snip -------------------------------
39 options thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1
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43 Francois Fleuret (francois@fleuret.org)
44 April 2009 (minor update Jan 2012)