fan control

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Thu Aug 26 17:20:02 UTC 2010


On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:56:57AM +0200, Matias wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just bought a Giada i20 mini-pc for my home server. I've managed to 
> slow down the cpu speed with powerd, but the fan keeps running at a 
> (what seems to me) too high speed.
<snip>
> Do you know if there is anything I can do on freebsd to reduce its 
> speed/noise?

Are there any sysctls for the fan? Try 'sysctl -a|grep fan'
Also check in the BIOS if there are relevant settings.

> p/d: The hardware is this: 
> http://www.giadatech.com/chanpinzhongxin/minipc/slim%20series/2010-01-19/17.html

Looks nice for a desktop as well.

Roland
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