ThinkPad Fan Control
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tp-fan monitors temperatures and controls fan speed of IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks. tp-fan is an open-source project released under the GPL v3.
The tpfand daemon controls the system fan in software. It can be used to make the notebook more quiet. However this will also result in higher system temperatures that may damage and/or shorten the lifespan of the computer. Since version 0.90 fan trigger temperatures can be configured separately for each temperature sensor.
This project also provides the tpfan-admin GTK+ frontend to monitor system temperature and adjust fan trigger temperatures.
Warning: This program may damage your notebook. The author does not take any responsibility for damages caused by the use of this program.
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System requirements
- an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad
- GNU/Linux 2.6
- fan control support for that model by the ibm-acpi kernel module
Installation
Either download and install the source by hand or install the prebuilt packages. A README file is included in the source distribution, that describes the manual installation steps.
You can now configure tpfand by starting System->Administration->Thinkpad Fan Control from GNOME or typing tpfan-admin at a shell.
Source
Warning: This program may damage your notebook. The author does not take any responsibility for damages caused by the use of this program.
- tpfand 0.94 released 11 Oct 2008
- tpfan-admin 0.95 released 8 Mar 2009
Download prebuilt packages
Warning: This program may damage your notebook. The author does not take any responsibility for damages caused by the use of this program.
Ubuntu 8.04 / 8.10 / 9.04
PPA location: https://launchpad.net/~tp-fan/+archive/ppa
1. Add the tp-fan repository (see https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA#Adding%20a%20PPA%20to%20your%20Ubuntu%20repositories for details) with the APT line:
for Ubuntu 8.04: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tp-fan/ppa/ubuntu hardy main for Ubuntu 8.10: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tp-fan/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main for Ubuntu 9.04: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tp-fan/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
2. To add the authentication key of the repository run the following command from a Terminal:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 59BE7ED0
3. Open Synaptic and install the packages tpfand, tpfand-profiles and tpfan-admin.
4. Click on System->Administration->ThinkPad Fan Control and configure ThinkPad Fan Control.
Latest fan profiles
Usually the latest fan profiles are included in the tpfand-profiles package.
If you wish you can download the latest approved profiles at http://www.gambitchess.org/tp-fan/profile_download.py as a .tar.gz-archive.
Extract them into /usr/share/tpfand.
Questions and Bugs
Please ask questions at https://answers.launchpad.net/tp-fan/+addquestion
Please report bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/tp-fan/+filebug
Contributing
See the ThinkPad Fan Control Development page for development resources.
