Update. Yesterday I upgraded (within the OS) from 14.04.05 to 16.04.
Tried the usual stuff installing lm-sensors with the same results as before. Typing i8kctl I got the fan speed, and it was still working after the upgrade (good!). Here comes the weird thing. I installed the Freon gnome-shell extension, which monitors a few interesting hardware things including fans speeds. And it DOES work. It shows the system fan speed (the only fan running on this system). Then, I tried again to run sudo sensors- detect and no fan sensor was detected. I've been running for a while gnome-shell extension called system- monitor. Till 14.04 it worked well showing the fan speed among other things. Running that extension now, after installing the Freon extension, works again and gives the fan speed. For the information shown in this extension, the sensor that monitors the fan speed is called Dell_smm-Fan1. Before running the Freon extension there was no sensor available for fans I'm not technician, nor programmer, just an end user, so I think my problem has been solved (I don't know yet how). Seem to me, that lm-sensor is missing something during the detection, but probably I am completely wrong. I would be glad to carry out any tests or uploading any dumps need to find out more about this, but I'm gonna need some guidance for that. Regards. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1617065 Title: No Fan detection under Gnome Ubuntu 16.04 Edit To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lm-sensors/+bug/1617065/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
