I have one laptop that had in issue with the fan as well. in such cases i always try to google with the exact typenumber of the laptop. in most cases you find someone with the exact same hardware as you that has the exact same problem. There is probably 1 undocumented setting, that you have to switch on or off. (for example. 2 ubuntu versions back, i had to tell alsa that my hardware was toshiba by doing something like: hardwarestack=toshiba and then i had sound.) We're pretty knowledgable alltogether, but i think we're not going to guess this one. rgds,
Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net Be a professional website builder: www.easysites.ug On Thursday 26 March 2009 00:20:07 Benoit Marquis wrote: > maybe you should try to install the drivers made by ati/amd if it is not > the one you are using ... > > http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.25.18.html > http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx > > > 2009/3/25 Christopher Nambale <[email protected]> > > > Thanks, > > > > Can see stuff to do with the temperature but nothing like fan/temperature > > control. Anyway , let me click around some more. > > > > Cheers > > > > C > > > > --- On *Tue, 3/24/09, Ernest Mwirima Byaruhanga <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > > From: Ernest Mwirima Byaruhanga <[email protected]> > > Subject: RE: [LUG] Thermal events and ACPI > > To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]> > > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 7:49 PM > > > > > > I had a similar issue years back on a Dell latitude and ubuntu 6.1? I > > remember using gkrellm, which had a nice GUI that set at what > > temperatures each fan should come on and off.. > > -- > > S60 Mobile (Nokia E71) > > > > -original message- > > Subject: [LUG] Thermal events and > > ACPI > > From: Christopher Nambale <[email protected]> > > Date: 24/03/2009 6:37 pm > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a computer running Ubuntu 8:10 and the noise from the fan is > > killing me. When I run it in Vista the fan is more or less very quiet > > whatever I do. However, once I switch to Ubuntu and run anything > > graphically intensive like a short video the fan starts up and never goes > > away. So this has me thinking that this may be a Graphical Processor Fan > > that is giving me the heart burn. A few pointers: > > > > Dmesg shows that ACPI is starting and locating the fans, please see > > attached acpi.txt. > > > > Although the BIOS DSDT (which supposedly can be a source of problems) is > > compiled with the Microsoft compiler (MSFT), I recompiled it with the > > Intel compiler without any errors so that looks fine. > > > > a quick check on > > cd /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THZN$ > > $ cat trip_points > > critical (S5): 105 C > > > > $ cat > > state > > state: ok <<even when the fan is blowing like mad. > > > > $ cat temperature > > temperature: 34 C <<still blowing like mad at this > > temperature yet fan switches on at 65+ > > $cat polling_frequency > > <polling disabled> > > > > > > etc etc I cannot change any of these values though. The graphics driver > > is an ATI proprietary driver that looks old? > > $ dmesg |grep ATI > > [ 25.826085] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI > > Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel. > > $ fglrxinfo > > display: :0.0 screen: 0 > > OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. > > OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon X1200 Series > > OpenGL version string: 2.1.8087 Release > > > > The computer is a Toshiba satellite with an AMD Turion (64) and the > > graphics card is an ATI Radeon X1250. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > CN > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > > way. --------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > <<ACPI.txt>> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > > way. --------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > > way. --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
