Gabriel Mititica wrote:
I have an old Toshiba Laptop Satellite 1800.
...
However, the fan seems not to work.
As the shameful user of a Toshiba Satellite 1800-S207, running FC2 and
the 2.6.8 kernel (part of the up2date default selected updates), I can
assure you that my fan works as expected (speeding up and slowing down
according to average CPU usage) just as it did when the laptop was
running Slackware 9 and *shivers* Windows XP before it.
How can I controll it (if possible)?
The kernel should already know how to deal with the fan as part of the
ACPI code.
If I upgrade the BIOS will help (and to which
version)? (The one installed is 1.1 and any attempts
with >=1.3 from Toshiba website failed)
I don't know what version of BIOS I have, but whenever moving BIOS
versions, it's typically advisable to go to the most recent version that
Toshiba (or whatever your PC manufacturer) has to offer. I can be quite
certain that the BIOS on this computer is from at least 3 years ago.
Regards and thank you in advance,
Gabriel
PS: I tried to install the ``Toshiba TCL Key and
Button Monitor'' from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclkeymon/
but it complains that tk is missing the ``Extras''
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