Sorry, you've got the wrong mailing list. This is for the Trac software. On Dec 27, 9:06 am, nano <thomas.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question related to lm-sensors and in particular fan control. > I've tried to find > a solution in many places online but with no luck, I think the people > at > lm-sensors will be the last place I look. > > I recently installed Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 (dual boot) on a Vista Acer > Aspire 3810t laptop. Processor and chipset specs are: > --------------------------------------------------------- > * - Intel® Core™2 Solo ultra low voltage processor SU3500 > * - Mobile Intel® GS45 Express Chipset > Power: > * ACPI 3.0 CPU power management standard: supports Standby and > Hibernation power-saving modes, 62.16 W 5600 mAh 6-cell Li-ion > battery pack: Acer PowerSmart 3-pin 65 W AC adapter, ENERGY > STAR® 5.0 > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Under Ubuntu 9.10 there appears to be a significant increase in the > fan > operation. Both when the laptop is plugged in and unplugged the fans > operate almost > constantly and at a strong speed. Since this did not happen under > Vista > and is quite bothersome, I started looking around for a solution. > > I installed the "Sensors Applet on the gnome panel" but that only > gives > me temperature readouts (the Core0 temp is always around 41 C, with > the > fan spinning all the time). > > I then installed "coretemp" through Synaptic, "lm-sensors", ran > "sensors-detect" (I have pasted the output of sensors-detect after the > end of the email as it is quite long). After that I ran "sensors" on > the > Terminal. This is what I got: > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > cpitz-virtual-0 > Adapter: Virtual device > temp1: +26.8°C (crit = +127.0°C) > > coretemp-isa-0000 > Adapter: ISA adapter > Core 0: +42.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Thus, no readouts for voltages or fan speeds. > > After that I tried running "pwmconfig" through the terminal, to > receive: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > My knowledge is limited and I could not find > any solutions to making the fan spin properly, that's why I decided to > ask you guys last. > > I should mention that I use kernel 2.6.31-16-generic, Grub2(beta-4), > my > Acer laptop BIOS is 1.17 (the most recent one), and that inside the > BIOS > there are no options for fan speeds or voltages. > > If anyone can provide any information as to what the problem is it > would > be hugely appreciated. > > I paste the contents of "sensors-detect" command below. Thanks, > > Thomas > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > (contents of "sensors-detect'): > > "We can start with probing for (PCI) I2C or SMBus adapters. > Do you want to probe now? (YES/no): y > Probing for PCI bus adapters... > Use driver `i2c-i801' for device 0000:00:1f.3: Intel ICH9 > > We will now try to load each adapter module in turn. > Load `i2c-i801' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): y > Module loaded successfully. > If you have undetectable or unsupported I2C/SMBus adapters, you can > have > them scanned by manually loading the modules before running this > script. > > To continue, we need module `i2c-dev' to be loaded. > Do you want to load `i2c-dev' now? (YES/no): y > Module loaded successfully. > > We are now going to do the I2C/SMBus adapter probings. Some chips may > be double detected; we choose the one with the highest confidence > value in that case. > If you found that the adapter hung after probing a certain address, > you can specify that address to remain unprobed. > > Next adapter: intel drm CRTDDC_A (i2c-0) > Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): y > > Next adapter: intel drm LVDSDDC_C (i2c-1) > Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): y > Client found at address 0x28 > Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78'... No > Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J'... No > Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79'... No > Probing for `National Semiconductor LM80'... No > Probing for `Winbond W83781D'... No > Probing for `Winbond W83782D'... No > Probing for `Winbond W83627HF'... No > Probing for `Winbond W83627EHF'... No > Probing for `Winbond W83627DHG'... No > Probing for `Asus AS99127F (rev.1)'... No > Probing for `Asus AS99127F (rev.2)'... No > Probing for `Asus ASB100 Bach'... No > Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1029'... No > Probing for `ITE IT8712F'... No > Client found at address 0x50 > Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'... No > Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1034'... No > Probing for `SPD EEPROM'... No > Probing for `EDID EEPROM'... Yes > (confidence 8, not a hardware monitoring chip) > > Next adapter: intel drm HDMIB (i2c-2) > Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): y > > Next adapter: DPDDC-B (i2c-3) > Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): y > > Next adapter: DPDDC-D (i2c-4) > Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): y > > Next adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 3000 (i2c-5) > Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): y > Client found at address 0x50 > Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'... No > Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1034'... No > Probing for `SPD EEPROM'... No > Probing for `EDID EEPROM'... No > Client found at address 0x52 > Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'... No > Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1034'... No > Probing for `SPD EEPROM'... No > Probing for `EDID EEPROM'... No > > Some chips are also accessible through the ISA I/O ports. We have to > write to arbitrary I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe > though. > Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any ISA slots! > Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (YES/no): y > Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' at 0x290... No > Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J' at 0x290... No > Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' at 0x290... No > Probing for `Winbond W83781D' at 0x290... No > Probing for `Winbond W83782D' at 0x290... No > Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0... No > Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC' at 0xca8... No > > Some Super I/O chips may also contain sensors. We have to write to > standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe. > Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): y > Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f > Trying family `National Semiconductor'... No > Trying family `SMSC'... No > Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Fintek'... No > Trying family `ITE'... No > Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f > Trying family `National Semiconductor'... No > Trying family `SMSC'... No > Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Fintek'... No > Trying family `ITE'... No > > Some south bridges, CPUs or memory controllers may also contain > embedded sensors. Do you want to scan for them? (YES/no): y > Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595... No > VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors... No > VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors... No > AMD K8 thermal sensors... No > AMD K10 thermal sensors... No > Intel Core family thermal sensor... Success! > (driver `coretemp') > Intel AMB FB-DIMM thermal sensor... No > > Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. > Just press ENTER to continue: > > Driver `coretemp' (should be inserted): > Detects correctly: > * Chip `Intel Core family thermal sensor' (confidence: 9)" > --------------------------------------------------------------------
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