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Tuco wrote:So my question is how do i install the fan control ?

In Terminal,
uname -r
2.6.28-13-generic
--the kernel version installed by Linux mint 7 -gloria (32bit edition in my case..)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=340208
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ACPI_fan_control_script
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installin ... inkPad_X61

Fan control apps/utilities, thinkpad + Ubuntu
http://www.princess.org/mediawiki/in ... an_Control

• Ubuntu 8.04 / 8.10 / 9.04 approx. equivalent to Mint 7 for software..
  PPA location: https://launchpad.net/~tp-fan/+archive/ppa
  1. Add the tp-fan repository (see https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PP ... positories for details) with the APT line:

I am not sure that particular facility is there on Ubuntu 9.4(jaunty)/Mint 7..
--you might be able to get something going without messing around with facilities /applications/utilities that are not available in the Ubuntu/Mint repositories , for disk, fan, battery monitoring & control
http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acp ... _supported

• acpitool -- command line utility to get battery/fan/temperature/cpu information or to suspend to RAM/disk, turn on/off fans, and control wakeup capable devices
  powersave, with front ends kpowersave, gkrellm-powersave, wmpowersave -- all purpose utility overing APM, ACPI and other power management features