Enable cpuFan at lower temperatures?

[diademed]

Currently, my CPU (or whatever) fan enables at 70 degrees, and shuts off at 60 degrees celsius. I would rather it enabled at much lower tempuratures...such as enabling at 60 and shutting off at 50.

I have some inkling of needing to edit my proc/acpi/.../thermal_zones
or my proc/acpi/ibm/thermal,

but I don't know what exactly to change -- nothing obvious jumps out, and google searches turn up nothing of relevance immediately.

If anyone has any experience with this, I'd be indebted.

Cheers!
-Dia

[christopher_wolf]

Have you checked out what is over at ThinkWiki?

They have a very good fan control script

See; http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ACPI_fan_control_script


That should get you started correctly.