larbs/optional/THINKPAD.md

Thinkpad

These are a bunch of useful programs if you own a thinkpad.

program	description
lm_sensors	utility for hardware monitoring and SMBus access
thinkfan	utility to control fanspeeds

installation

After installing both lm_sensors and thinkfan activate thinkpad_acpi.

sudo modprobe thinkpad_acpi

Then copy and configure the config file.

sudo cp /usr/share/doc/thinkfan/examples/thinkfan.conf.simple /etc/thinkfan.conf

Enable it.

systemctl enable thinkfan

After that check and if correct enable the thinkfan service.

sudo thinkfan -n

systemctl enable thinkfan.service