The layout of the site is now complete. Perhaps a few small details might get revised but the essential pages are all in place now. Listprice is now added to the software available.
As far as software goes that is all I have available for now. I have some promising ideas and am working on them, but how long it will take before they are ready for a wider audience I cannot tell.
If you have a suitable Dell laptop then why not give fanxdell a try - it may be small in terms of download size, but it has no shortage of functionality and was written for efficiency and clarity, rather than in an attempt to impress anyone with the size and complexity of the source code package:).
Later Dell laptops may support conventional ACPI fan control. The thermald Debian package is reputed to work with these, it is written in C++ by Srinivas.Pandruvada from Intel. They may also support the older interface as a legacy feature, which apparently can sometimes cause system conflicts.
Looking in /sys/class/thermal may help you determine if ACPI is supported via the kernel interface, and examining the files in thermal_zone0 and cooling_device0. On my C840 the CPU temperature is correctly identified (multiplied by 1000), but not on my CPx, and neither show the correct fan status. There is no cooling_device1 on the C840 to represent the second fan either, so these factors indicate that fanxdell is the route to take.
As far as software goes that is all I have available for now. I have some promising ideas and am working on them, but how long it will take before they are ready for a wider audience I cannot tell.
If you have a suitable Dell laptop then why not give fanxdell a try - it may be small in terms of download size, but it has no shortage of functionality and was written for efficiency and clarity, rather than in an attempt to impress anyone with the size and complexity of the source code package:).
Later Dell laptops may support conventional ACPI fan control. The thermald Debian package is reputed to work with these, it is written in C++ by Srinivas.Pandruvada from Intel. They may also support the older interface as a legacy feature, which apparently can sometimes cause system conflicts.
Looking in /sys/class/thermal may help you determine if ACPI is supported via the kernel interface, and examining the files in thermal_zone0 and cooling_device0. On my C840 the CPU temperature is correctly identified (multiplied by 1000), but not on my CPx, and neither show the correct fan status. There is no cooling_device1 on the C840 to represent the second fan either, so these factors indicate that fanxdell is the route to take.