Breezed is a small daemon to control the speed of the fan, depending on the current temperature of the computer. I have tested it only on a Thinkpad X61s. * INSTALLATION Before installing, you must have a configuration file in /etc/breezed.conf. Only one is currently provided in the archive, and it corresponds to the settings _I_ picked for _my_ Lenovo X61s. I have no idea if these settings are safe on this laptop (I guess so, since I have been using them for a few months now and it works perfectly), and I suspect they are not safe for another laptop. If you want to give it a try, just cp breezed_Lenovo_X61s.conf /etc/breezed.conf Then, you can install the daemon simply with make install and uninstall it with make uninstall See the man page for details about the algorithm, arguments and configuration file. * NOTES On Thinkpads you have to allow the module thinkpad_acpi to set the fan speed, which is not allowed by default in Debian. To do so, you have to have a file /etc/modprobe.d/thinkpad_acpi.modprobe containing ---------------------------- snip snip ------------------------------- options thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1 ---------------------------- snip snip ------------------------------- -- Francois Fleuret (francois@fleuret.org) April 2009