ThinkPad Fan Control daemon (tpfand) ==================================== tpfand controls the system fan of ThinkPad notebooks based on specified temperature profiles. Seperate trigger points can be configured for every temperature sensor in the notebook. tpfand is written entirely in Python and licensed under the GNU GPL version 3. REQUIREMENTS ============ Python 2.7 : by fork author DBus with bindings for Python thinkpad_acpi kernel module with fan control support python-dmidecode : by fork author NOTE: Some versions of the thinkpad_acpi module must be loaded with fan_control=1 to enable fan control. On some distributions you have to append the line "thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1" to /etc/modules. Refer to your distribution manual about kernel module configuration. INSTALLATION ============ 1. Adjust src/tpfand/build.py to your needs. 2. Run make install 3. Make sure that tpfand is started on every boot. This is done in a distribution specific way. (for example with update-rc.d on Ubuntu) 4. Install the man page tpfand.8 (optional) 5. Download contributed profiles from http://www.gambitchess.org/tp-fan/profile_download.py and extract them to the directory you specified under data_dir in build.py. (optional) CONFIGURATION ============= The configuration file is /etc/tpfand.conf. After manual changes to this configuration file tpfand must be restarted. tpfan-admin, a GTK+ configuration tool, is also available and the recommended way of configuring tpfand.