ThinkPad fan control via procfs
- by asebian
My ThinkPad W500 used to crash sometimes under heavy load because the automatic control is not speeding up the fan far enough. But I was able to disengage the fan and let it run at full speed in Ubuntu 10.10.
But this does not work in my new nice and shiny Ubuntu 11.10.
Have a glimpse at fan control device.
% ls -l /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
-rw-r--r-- 1…