Fan Control

Will the instructions on this thread (post by Krog) work on Mandriva:

viewtopic.php?f=43&t=300&start=320

 

am interested in this too, have tried a few times and can't seem to get it working!?

even running the script doesn't seem to cut it, and I get no obvious errors either!

anyone got this working?

 

It's been advised to using acerfand use http://piie.net/index.php?section=acerhdf instead.

Grtz,

 

any step by step guide, which is applicable to Mandriva?

there is an ubuntu one here, but is mandriva friendly?:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

 

OK I followed the ubuntu guide (above), tweaked for mandriva and latest version....

Start a terminal session, type su and enter root password:
Then do these steps:

wget http://www.piie.net/files/acerhdf_kmod-0.4.0.tar.gz
tar zxvf acerhdf_kmod-0.4.0.tar.gz
cd acerhdf_kmod
make
make install

Now load the kernel module using

modprobe acerhdf

To make sure it loads at boot time add acerhdf to /etc/modprob.preload

eg
# /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
# this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY
# for old kernel use /etc/modules
acerhdf
nvram
intel_agp
evdev

it should control the fan, loaded at boot

worked for me, but I'm no linux expert so use at your own risk