[frgeek-michiana] Fan regulator for Dell Inspiron B130
- From: tbrown46628@xxxxxxxxx
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 20:01:37 -0700 (PDT)
I have a used Dell Inspiron B130 on which I wiped XP and installed VL 6.0.
These laptops apparently contain a BIOS extension on the hard drive. When I
wiped the drive, I eliminated fan regulation. Oops.
Dellfand is a fan regulator which works for quite a few Dell laptops including
the B130.
http://dellfand.dinglisch.net/
One thing, don't start dellfand at boot time. Wait until you have a command
line or desktop. I first put a start up script in rc.local. When the script
executed, it interrupted the boot up sequence. It might work better to
background the script and point it's output to the bit bucket for safe measure.
There is an init.d control script which may be adaptable to VL.
btw, at the web-dev meeting tonight Imre said that his HP/Compaq Evo laptop fan
works with Puppy Linux. So the chipset is either supported in the Linux kernel
in spite of our failed efforts to find the support module, or someone in the
Puppy community wrote a support driver or utility.
Tom
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