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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728733 Title: fan only works when my acer 5315 is booted then stops To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi/+bug/728733/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
