[arch-general] Laptop cooling fan does not work

[Dragon ryu]

2016/08/24 4:10 "Jayesh Badwaik" <archlinux at jayeshbadwaik.in>:
>
> > There seems to be sth. wrong with my Nvidia settings, nvidia-settings
> > shows an error that X is incorrectly configured and my vidieo card
> > seems not to be used - probably this causes the problems. Maybe this
> > is caused by some update or sth. else. I'll check that next weekend.
>
> Okay, first you must install lm_sensors package and run
> $ sensors
>
> command. This will tell you about your fan speed for the processor.
> Next, if the CPU processor is running, determine which driver are you
> using. For this, you need to do lsmod, which lists all the modules
> listed (this should contain your video driver module)
>
> $ lsmod | grep -i nvidia
>
> $ lsmod | grep -i nouveau
>
> At least one the above should return something. nouveau is the open
> source driver.
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Jayesh Badwaik

Don't forget run detect-sensors with sudo...