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| author | Lockywolf <for_sbo.i8kutils_2023-05-15@lockywolf.net> | 2023-11-29 06:13:01 +0900 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2023-11-29 18:38:18 +0700 |
| commit | 8423adb70e77322fc74c3213d2c533b2c26aa0ef (patch) | |
| tree | 38928b22f04b72315df1ac04b9e0b70c873bfc0f /system/i8kutils/README | |
| parent | ed9f0fdbbbd996906f652bf2d5161e50a8e08c89 (diff) | |
system/i8kutils: Updated for version 20210330_c993fb1d.
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'system/i8kutils/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/i8kutils/README | 28 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/system/i8kutils/README b/system/i8kutils/README index be39efb3ed482..82346433d2937 100644 --- a/system/i8kutils/README +++ b/system/i8kutils/README @@ -1,3 +1,25 @@ -This package contains user-space programs for controlling the fans -on Dell laptops. Make sure the i8k module is loaded before using -i8kutils. +i8kutils package contains user-space programs for controlling the fans +on some Dell laptops. + +Note: i8kutils is entirely built upon the dell-smm-hwmon kernel module. + +These data contains the states and the system temperature along with +others infos. The fields returned in a query to the system are +summarized below. + + * BIOS version + + * Dell service tag (later known as 'serial number') + + * CPU temperature + + * fan status + + * fan rotation speed (only on some models) + + * ac power status + + * volume buttons status (not the multimedia buttons) + +The data are collected from the dell-smm-hwmon kernel module that is +included in recent kernels. |