pwmconfig fails because 0 is max on Dell Vostro 430

[Keith Wansbrough]

On my Dell Vostro 430 MT desktop with f71882fg sensors, setting hwmon0/device/pwm1 to 0 causes the fan to go to maximum speed. Minimum speed is achieved by setting this to 1 instead (255 is maximum speed as usual).

pwmconfig doesn't work in this case, because it assumes that because the fan speed doesn't change when the pwm value is changed to 0 from 255, there's no correlation. I got it to work by changing it to use 1 instead of 0 in the relevant places ("pwmset $i 0" and "while [ $pwm -ge 0 ]").

The fan also takes quite a while to spin up/down, so I changed the delay to 10 seconds.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: fancontrol 1:3.1.2-2 [modified: usr/sbin/pwmconfig]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-30.59-generic 2.6.32.29+drm33.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-30-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 3 22:12:38 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lm-sensors-3

[dino99 (9d9)]

Closing that outdated report as EOL has been reached long time ago