Thinkpad T41 fan problem on a Puppy Linux

[sc0u7]

As you all know, its common fault with named series, in windows there is one small program, which will silence the fan instantly, however in linux it seems that i have to compile everything for current distro, which is Lucid Puppy 5.2

Ive looked in the PET appications manager, but there are no thinkpad related items.

Currently i have found this page ://thinkfan.sourceforge.net/

which gives me thinkfan-0.7.1.tar.gz file, but unpacking and using makefile does nothing (does not understand make).

Then i have also found this page, which contains program with nice little GUI, but same deal, commans provided in the manual are not recognized by my console.

://xxx.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_control_fan_speed

I have proc/acpi/ibm folder, but there are no acpi related stuff, fan file only contains info about the speed of fan, status and default setting, which is automatic.


Btw, i havent really found a way how to chekc hw temps.


Any help is greatly appreciated, i really want to make this puppy work and not use W7.

Tnx.

[rokytnji]

See if pemasu pet for 5.2 , laptop-001.pet improves your situation any.

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