Re: [Hampshire] Debian on Toshiba Laptops

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Author: Greg Auger
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian on Toshiba Laptops
I have an ancient toshiba laptop, this looks very interesting. Thanks Clive!

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Clive Woodfine <clivewoodfine@???> wrote:
> This may be of interest to users Toshiba Laptops running Debian based OS's.
>
> I have noticed my Satellite 4090XCDT seemed to get slower and slower
> and hotter and hotter the longer it is on. I can hear the CPU fan
> running but the main fan is never on. I have had the machine apart and
> found the fan worked if a voltage is applied directly.
>
> Searching google came up with this web site [1]. Surprisingly the
> package 'toshset' is available in the Debian repositories. With this
> the fan can switched on/off and other Toshiba utilities used.
>
> Thanks everyone for a good day at the BaB.
>
> [1] http://www.buzzard.me.uk/toshiba/index.html
>
> --
> Clive Woodfine