Hi, Found this tread in the forums, after searching thru lots of them. Look in the bottom section and you find a solution with sudo modprobe i8k force=1 http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-472567.html
That one did work on the Dell XPSM1710. Not sure why i8k did not load without the force thought... Finally some cooling! So now it's only to see if the screen behaves. -- CPU fan not working properly: kernel/drivers/char/i8k.ko not autoloaded https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160291 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs