laptop fan control via FreeBSD

[Fabian Keil]

Xavier <xavierfreebsdquestions at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any way to control the on and off the fan on a laptop using FreeBSD?

It depends on the laptop. On mine it works:

fk at r500 ~ $sysctl -ad | grep fan
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: Fan speed
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: Fan level
dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: Fan enable

Fabian
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