Sadly, having had a few days experience with this, I must now report
that the `solution' is not perfect. If I hibernate or suspend the
laptop, when it wakes up the fan does its old on for a while, off for a
second behaviour. I notice though that i8kmon shows 0 degrees for the
temp after the
Having just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, I hit this spinning fan problem on
a Dell Latitude D630 laptop. The problem appears to have been introduced
by the upgrade of the Nvidia driver from version 173 to 177. Graphics is
provided by an nVidia Quadro NVS 135M.
Searching for answers I found
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 280805 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280805
I realise this is a dup bug, and I just commented on the original bug,
but I just wanted to point out that I have a practically identical
system to Chris H.'s above -- and BIOS A13 fixed it for me. So there's
