Re: Time for a new Project: FAN SPEED

> Alright, I've decided it's related to my fans.  (My problems,
> spontaneous power off).  And the lack of temperature stepping in
> Linux.
> 
> There has to be more than one temperature sensor in this silly thing,
> or if there's just one that's fine too.
> 
> I haven't found a project on this yet -- has anyone else?  I suppose I
> better describe now.
> 
> 1)  Detect Current Fan Speeds and ALL Temperatures inside Sony Laptop 
> (I'm using a GRX600K)
> 2)  Be able to Adjust Fan Speeds, First Manually, THEN Automatic
> 3)  Be able to automatically adjust power consumption/performance and
> throttling.  Throttling is the big one.  I can do these manually, but
> I really want a way to be able to adjust Throttling w/o having to su -
> as root.

My $0.02: did you try LM Sensors?
  http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/
It usually doesn't work on laptops (on mine it only detects two eeproms,
no real hardware monitoring chipset), but who knows...

-- 
Jean Delvare
http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/