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Hi !

Well, my fan control program is now working pretty well... I'm testing it for about two months, it works, no problem, no crashs, no overheating...

The only problem that there is still not configuration file for that program... It's still in beta release. So to set temperatures, you have to change values in the main file and recompile the program... It's quite easy; the program is written in C so you just need a C compiler (gcc).
There is a makefile, so once your modifications done, you juste have to tye make in a terminal and it should be work...

You can also trie it without changing fan speed, just to monitor... I recommend you doing this first because i haven't tested it on another computer than mine... But it should be working !

So, if you're interested in testing my program, i can mail it to you... Would be great to have some feedback from you to improve it !

Tell me what

pm with email sent. So fan is controlled by temp? One can also still echo to /proc/acpi/blah to controll speed, or does you program allow one to set speed by cli?

I still think it's wiser to do this in bash, awk, or perl instead of C after parsing /proc/acpi output, by the way, but perhaps you're using much more logic than I am thinking of.