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.
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