[edelmeier]

Hi all,

I urgently need to turn down that PWM Fan inside my box. it's just overspeeding, constantly running at ~4.000 RPM.
My bios doesn't have any smart fan options, since the hardware has been designed fanless (it gets a little too warm, though).

Any ideas how this can be achieved in XBMCBuntu?
TIA
Seb

[CaptainPsycho]

I never was happy with a software solution to control fanspeed.

Get yourself a cheap little fancontroler.

http://www.amazon.com/Gino-Computer-Cool...controller

[wsnipex]

sudo apt-get install fancontrol

[edelmeier]

thanks. @wsnipex, can you tell me how I can get to a console for running apt from the xbmc UI?

[artrafael]

See this post: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1473020

Once you are on the desktop, you can open a terminal session... or use Synaptic.

[edelmeier]

Ok, got to a terminal, installed fancontrol, then wanted to generate a config file using pwmconfig, but the latter says that it can't locate any pwm sensor...is it possible to set a static fan speed somehow? The board was operated passively for a long time, so even a 1000RPM fan will help - while being silent

[CaptainPsycho]

So how should your board control fanspeed if linux is not capable to read the actual fan speed through any pwm sensor?
Possibly your board does not have a supported pwm sensor.

So go to post #2.

I struggled exactly the same problems. ;-)