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. ---------------------------------------
