colin-king: I have not yet heard of thermald, will try it out after this comment.
First I have new (and to me, confusing) information. To run apport-collect, i first booted it *without* "acpi=off nolapic" so it has wi-fi (but no fan). After it finished booting, I put it to suspend to let it cool down a bit (it already passed 70°C after loading X). When I woke it up, the fan worked! Two reboots confirm this behaviour; If you load it up to X without the fan, press Power button (to get the menu which allows you to suspend), suspend it, and then wake it up, the fan starts and correctly scales with temperature. A stress --cpu 3 gets it to 69-70 °C, and the fan gets really loud but it keeps the cpu at that temperature. If you CTRL-C the stress, it cools down to around 58°C within one second or so and then the fan slows down. ----- Now to the apport-collect I was asked to run: It told me that it would be better to spawn a new bug report with apport-bug (maybe marking it as duplicate) instead of sending data to this one. Should I listen to its recommendation? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728733 Title: fan only works when my acer 5315 is booted then stops Status in acpi package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: acpi fan only works when my acer 5315 is booted then stops.i have a acer aspire 5315 laptop. My fan stopped working after installing ubuntu from vista. ive changed it for a new one and still the same problem. no dust aswel. please help ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: acpi 1.5-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Mar 3 22:18:12 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: acpi To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi/+bug/728733/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
