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.
8 You can install it simply by running as root
12 and de-install it with
16 You must have a configuration file in /etc/breezed.conf. Only one
17 is currently provided in the archive, and it corresponds to the
18 settings _I_ picked for _my_ Lenovo X61s.
20 I have no idea if these settings are safe on this laptop (I guess
21 so, since I have been using them for a few months now and it works
22 perfectly), and I suspect they are not safe for another laptop.
26 Breezed scans the temperatures every 5s and sets the fan speed
27 according to a series of thresholds.
29 Unfortunately, if the fan speed is set directly according to these
30 temperature thresholds, it creates oscillations: The fan goes up,
31 temperature goes down, hence fan goes down, temperature goes up,
34 To mitigate such phenomenons, the daemon waits at least 30s after
35 the last change before reducing the fan speed, and the actual
36 thresholds to decrease the fan speed are two degrees below the
37 provided thresholds, which are used when increasing the fan
38 speed. This creates a stability area of two degrees, which seems to
39 be enough. Please let me know if you have problem with the
40 resulting overall behavior.
44 I wrote this daemon for my personal usage on a X61s, and using it
45 may damage your hardware.
47 On Thinkpads you have to allow the module thinkpad_acpi to set the
48 fan speed, which is not allowed by default in Debian. To do so, you
49 have to have a file /etc/modprobe.d/thinkpad_acpi.modprobe
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53 options thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1
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57 Francois Fleuret (francois@fleuret.org)