Michael you should try running your machine in a colder environment, like Antarctica. I think you will find your machine runs cooler and by your logic this PROVES that the problem is that you don't live in Antarctica.
Study this link: http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+causality There are a lot of factors at play here and a lot of different hardware configurations, all of which control fans through completely different mechanisms. Problems will be fixed when they are isolated and identified... nothing in this thread has given enough information to do that yet. If you want to try to speed up your dell fans in the kernel, check out the "i8k" module from git and go to town. James -- Ubuntu 9.04 laptop overheat and shutdown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370173 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
