[SOLVED] Re: New Jessie Install: Laptop fan doesn't run

2015-05-24 Thread Federico Ramos
Hi, my name is Federico Ramos and I have the same problem. I read that it is a solved trouble, but in the last e-mail sent, i read Luckily I had an old XP install disk hanging around and was able to upgrade the firmware... What this means? Can any one give some more information about how can I

Re: [SOLVED] Re: New Jessie Install: Laptop fan doesn't run

2015-05-24 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2015-05-24 at 12:42 -0300, Federico Ramos wrote: Hi, my name is Federico Ramos and I have the same problem. I read that it is a solved trouble, but in the last e-mail sent, i read Luckily I had an old XP install disk hanging around and was able to upgrade the firmware... What this

[SOLVED] Re: New Jessie Install: Laptop fan doesn't run

2015-05-05 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/04/2015 11:01 PM, Glen Reesor wrote: On 2015-05-03 16:00, Glen Reesor wrote: On 2015-05-03 14:20, Ralph Katz wrote: Please don't top post; it makes following the thread harder. My reply follows below... On 05/02/2015 07:23 PM, Glen

Re: New Jessie Install: Laptop fan doesn't run

2015-05-04 Thread Glen Reesor
On 2015-05-03 16:00, Glen Reesor wrote: On 2015-05-03 14:20, Ralph Katz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Please don't top post; it makes following the thread harder. My reply follows below... On 05/02/2015 07:23 PM, Glen Reesor wrote: I've done some more research, and

Re: New Jessie Install: Laptop fan doesn't run

2015-05-03 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Please don't top post; it makes following the thread harder. My reply follows below... On 05/02/2015 07:23 PM, Glen Reesor wrote: I've done some more research, and it appears that the fan control is only happening at boot, in *both* the installed

Re: New Jessie Install: Laptop fan doesn't run

2015-05-03 Thread Glen Reesor
On 2015-05-03 14:20, Ralph Katz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Please don't top post; it makes following the thread harder. My reply follows below... On 05/02/2015 07:23 PM, Glen Reesor wrote: I've done some more research, and it appears that the fan control is only

Re: New Jessie Install: Laptop fan doesn't run

2015-05-02 Thread Glen Reesor
Some more information... I have confirmed that the fan runs when the Jessie livecd is running, but the fan doesn't run for amd64 or i386 installations. I've compared syslog, daemon.log, and lsmod and found: syslog: Both livecd and amd64 installation have these lines: kernel: [

Re: New Jessie Install: Laptop fan doesn't run

2015-05-02 Thread Glen Reesor
I've done some more research, and it appears that the fan control is only happening at boot, in *both* the installed system and the livecd. So if the machine is hot at boot, the fan runs and stays running regardless of temperature changes. If the machine is cool at boot, the fan doesn't run,

New Jessie Install: Laptop fan doesn't run

2015-04-30 Thread Glen Reesor
I have done a fresh install of Jessie on an old Acer laptop and the fan never runs, so it overheats. Interestingly, the fan *does* run while Jessie is being installed.Has anyone had similar problems? Does anyone have suggestions on how to diagnose this?Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to