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Fan control for some Dell laptops
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Segmentation fault when running `smm` on Ubuntu 15.10 64-bit (Linux: 4.2.0-21-generic) #2

Closed deborasetton closed 8 years ago

deborasetton commented 8 years ago

Hi,

I'm trying to use the smm utility to enable/disable fan control in the BIOS, as per the suggestion in this question. I cloned this repository and compiled smm, but when I run it, it always crashes with a Segmentation fault.

I could provide the core dump it generates; would that help? I'm not sure how to investigate this issue further to provide additional useful information... I'd appreciate any help! Thanks.

deborasetton commented 8 years ago

I just found out that the problem was that I was not running the command as root. Using sudo fixed that.