Fansilencer

2009-03-21, 16:47

Is your Sony Vaio laptop too loud because of that annoying fan running all the time? Mine was and that's why I wrote a simple program that keeps the fan from running all the time. This program works under Linux and requires SonyPI driver to work. This driver is preinstalled at least in Ubuntu distribution.

Sony Vaio TX3HP/W

Program simply prevents fan from running until the predefined temperature limit has been exceeded. After this fan runs until the 'low limit' has been reached. It is a very simple program indeed and shouldn't require any extra explonations. Below is a concole output of the Fansilencer.

Sony Vaio - Fan silencer v0.1
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Usage: fansilencer [MAX TEMPERATURE] [ACTIVE TEMPERATURE]
Fan activates when temperature reaches given MAX TEMPERATURE
and runs until temperature is dropped down to ACTIVE TEMPERATURE.

WARNING! DO NOT USE TOO HIGH MAX TEMPERATURE. THIS MIGHT
DAMAGE YOUR SYSTEM OR BREAK IT COMPLETELY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

As you can see, stopping the fan from working can be dangrous and harm your system! I do NOT take any responsibility what so ever! If you use this program, you use it with your own risk! Be aware that Sony warranty propably doesn't cover the possible damages.

Fansilencer was implemented with C++ and it uses SonyPI driver. It's released under GPL licence, which makes it free in every sense of the word. You can download this small utility program from here. Please, see README for installation instructions.