It appears that I'm having this same issue; Since upgrading my Dell Inspiron 9200 to Feisty, as soon as I do anything even remotely processor intensive (like running Konversation and Amarok at the same time), the fan kicks on full and stays on until I reboot. A dual boot machine, I can run the most intensive game in Windows and the fan rarely, if ever, kicks in this high.
Per the linked bug, someone else is suffering from this issue on a 9200, but that bug seems to be related to CPU scaling. My CPU scaling works, when set to dynamic it yo-yos between 600 and 1800, depending what I'm doing. I'm pretty confident CPU scaling is really working, not just looking like it is, because the bogomips in /proc/cpuinfo changes based on the scaling reported I've let it sit at 600 for as long as I can stand it after the fan kicks in, but it never shuts down. The laptop doesn't feel any hotter than normal, so I don't believe it genuinely needs the fan to be running at this point. The processor is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz, with 512MB RAM, so isn't the latest and greatest, but isn't horrible. -- /fan dir empty! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92117 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
