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blossa
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 Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:21 am Post subject: |
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Yes, I did:
| Code: | | rc-update add fancontrol default |
rc-update -s confirms it.
and here is the output: | Code: |
# /etc/init.d/fancontrol start
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but if I do:
| Code: | # /usr/sbin/fancontrol
Loading configuration from /etc/fancontrol ...
Common settings:
INTERVAL=10
Settings for *-0290/pwm2:
Depends on *-0290/temp2_input
Controls *-0290/fan2_input
MINTEMP=45
MAXTEMP=60
MINSTART=0
MINSTOP=0
Settings for *-0290/pwm1:
Depends on *-0290/temp1_input
Controls *-0290/fan1_input
MINTEMP=45
MAXTEMP=60
MINSTART=0
MINSTOP=0
Enabling PWM on fans...
Starting automatic fan control...
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blossa
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know if it helps but here is the output from rc-status:
| Code: | # rc-status
Runlevel: default
xdm [ started ]
cupsd [ started ]
local [ started ]
mysql [ started ]
samba [ started ]
lm_sensors [ started ]
domainname [ started ]
net.lo [ started ]
net.eth0 [ started ]
splash [ started ]
apache2 [ started ]
fancontrol [ stopped ]
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Deepak420
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Location: Beantown
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:05 am Post subject: |
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This line needs to be added to the top of the script:
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fly-a-lot
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Joined: 30 May 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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Hi guys,
I hope somebody is still watching this topic 
After quite some time and after following a couple of tricks I finally got the PWM interface for the fans running on my mainboard (Asus A8N-E). After taking that hurdle I founf this thread and liked the idea to start fancontrol with the start-stop-daemon as suggested before.
Unfortunately I ran into some unexpected problems. But let me first show you my /etc/init.d/fancontrol | Code: | #!/sbin/runscript
start() {
ebegin "Starting fancontrol"
start-stop-daemon --start --background --pidfile /var/run/fancontrol.pid --exec /usr/sbin/fancontrol
eend $? "Failed to start fancontrol"
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping fancontrol"
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/fancontrol.pid
eend $? "Failed to stop fancontrol"
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That is pretty staightforward and basically what has been suggested before.
Now, when I start fancontrol with | Code: | | /etc/init.d/fancontrol start |
fancontrol starts and works fine. The fan speed is reduced and everything works as expected. Stopping fancontrol sets the fan to full speed - everything is working fine so far.
But when I do | Quote: | | rc-update add fancontrol default |
and reboot the system, the following happens.
- on the boot screen a message appears that fancontrol starts ok
- immediately after booting I do the following checks:
1. fan is running at full speed: fancontrol appears to be not running
2. /var/run/fancontrol.pid contains a different pid than the one I checked before I rebooted the system
3. can't find a process with the pid shown in fancontrol.pid
Conclusion: fancontrol started but aborted immediately for some reason. No error message, nothing.
Has anybody an idea what is going on here?
Thanks!!! |
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r8dhex
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Joined: 25 Jul 2002
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| Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:15 am Post subject: |
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I modified the init script like this. This was because when booting, fancontrol would fail since lm_sensors wasn't running yet, adding depend() makes sure that lm_sensors starts first before fancontrol
| Code: | #!/sbin/runscript
depend() {
need lm_sensors
}
start() {
ebegin "Starting fancontrol"
start-stop-daemon --start --background --pidfile /var/run/fancontrol.p$
eend $? "Failed to start fancontrol"
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping fancontrol"
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/fancontrol.pid
eend $? "Failed to stop fancontrol"
}
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fly-a-lot
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, you are right, r8dhex!
depend() was indeed missing 
Just to close the case, after adding depend() to /etc/init.d/fancontrol | Code: | | /sbin/depscan.sh --update |
needs to be run. |
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fataki
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:57 am Post subject: |
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I managed to get fancontrol to work, but the fan keeps stopping for few seconds once a minute or so. I would like the fan to always stay at least around 1000rpm. I tried to set MINTEMP to very low and adjust MINSTART and MINSTOP, but the fan always wants to stop.
My normal idle temperature is 45 degrees when the fan spins at around 1000rpm (and for a second once in a while) and <38 when fan's at full speed.
Here's /etc/fancontrol
| Code: | INTERVAL=10
FCTEMPS= 9191-0290/pwm1=9191-0290/temp1_input
FCFANS= 9191-0290/pwm1=9191-0290/fan1_input
MINTEMP= 9191-0290/pwm1=35
MAXTEMP= 9191-0290/pwm1=100
MINSTART= 9191-0290/pwm1=100
MINSTOP= 9191-0290/pwm1=0 |
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alkan
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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run the fancotrol script manually like:
| Code: | | DEBUG=1 /usr/sbin/fancontrol |
and watch what is going on with some values.
Your fan might want to stop if your temperature goes below minimum temperature. quoting from /usr/sbin/fancontrol script
| Code: | if (( $tval <= $mint ))
then pwmval=0 # at specified mintemp shut fan off
elif (( $tval >= $maxt ))
then pwmval=255 # at specified maxtemp switch to 100%
else
# calculate the new value from temperature and settings
....
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You see if temperature goes below minimum temp, it shuts down the fan and vice versa. You said you tried setting the min temperature to very low, there might be a glitch reading the temperature, so you watch temperature output with DEBUG=1. |
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fataki
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| fataki wrote: | I managed to get fancontrol to work, but the fan keeps stopping for few seconds once a minute or so. I would like the fan to always stay at least around 1000rpm. I tried to set MINTEMP to very low and adjust MINSTART and MINSTOP, but the fan always wants to stop.
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I forgot to mention, that fancontrol didn't start up correctly after doing 'rc-update add fancontrol default' and I had to start it manually. After I did 'killall -9 fancontrol' the manually started fancontrol started to work perfectly, so there must have been multiple fancontrol prosesses running. |
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