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toshiba tecra m3-s636 fan control
I cant seem to figure out how to control my fanspeed. The laptop is getting too hot and shutting down after i upgraded to new 12.04 ubuntu. The fan does not sound like it is running as fast as ...
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After I install lm-sensors, I can not find /etc/sensors.conf
I have run sudo sensors-detect, and only find two modules
#----cut here----
# Chip drivers
coretemp
lm75
#----cut here----
And run sensors, gives
$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
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Can I change my stock amd fan speed?
I have an amd a4-5300, and it it running loud. I remember my last amd stock fan being silent. I can't change it in my bios, and I see that it might be possible to do through Ubuntu when googling. I ...
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Fans really loud, ubuntu 12.10
I've been trying to get into using Ubuntu 12.10, but it's hard when my PCs fans are nonstop running so loud I get a headache at the very least.
While it was running Windows 7 the fans were mostly ...
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Fan speed in ubuntu: pwmconfig no pwm-capable sensor modules installed
I followed this guide about how to control fan speed in Ubuntu, but it doesn't work with my laptop (Dell Inspiron 15r).
I installed lm-sensors and fancontrol packages. Then I configured lm-sensors by ...
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Laptop overheating
I have a Toshiba L500-128 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit OS,
the only problem I have is the overheating of my CPU, with temperatures from 70 to 90 C.
I think that this is related to the usage of the ...
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Is there a user-friendly setup to reduce performance and fan thresholds?
My Dell Vostro 4450 with Ubuntu 12.04 started heating (>95°C) when its on heavy load and charging battery (sometimes it freezes in this conditions). When on heavy load but using battery, it stabilize ...
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Make fan speed change permanent with aticonfig
I have a Radeon HD 7950 on Ubuntu 12.10, kernel 3.5. I have the fglrx-updates installed. The problem is that my gpu fan, upon startup, ramps up to 100% and stays that way. It's the same way on my ...
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Noisy Fan Ubuntu 12.10, not that noisy on Windows
I am using a Dell Inspiron 7520. I have a AMD Radeon HD 7730m working in switching with an Intel HD 4000. I have the lastest drivers from AMD so my switching is working flawlessly. I have made some ...
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High CPU temperature and Fan speed in ubuntu 12.04
I am using 12.04 LTS version of ubuntu. In which I am getting High CPU temperature and fan speed from beginning of the system. Temperature remain > 62°C. I am using jupitar but it's not helping in ...
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Weird laptop fan sound
I just bought a new laptop - SAMSUNG Series 3 NP350V5C-T01US, installed ubuntu 12.10. Everything is ok, except a very annoying sound produced by the fan. If it would be just a constant sound, I mean ...
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Manually turn on CPU fan
My BIOS controls my fan speeds, and I want to keep it that way. I have a machine in my basement where it's normally pretty cool, and as long as the machine isn't under high load the fans don't need to ...
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MD Radeon HD 7730M (Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition)
I cannot find the drivers for AMD Radeon HD 7730M(Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition) on the AMD website! can someone please send me the link to download any open source drivers if available?
Also the ...
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Passive cooling on laptop
I have a Dell XPS 15 laptop (model number l502x). In both windows 7 and windows 8, I have been able to select power options (power saver, high performance, etc.). In the configuration settings for ...
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How do I control the fan when running kernel 3.7?
A while ago I started to use thinkfan to control the fan speed of my lenovo thinkpad. This became necessary as it stoped working after a kernel update (I think it came with the installation of a v3.7 ...
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fan control on ASUS eeebox 1033
I'm using an ASUS eeebox 1033, which is intended as a HTPC, and thus needs to be quite.
I've tried to use lm-config and fancontrol packages.
When I check for sensors, all I see is two temperature ...
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Fan running uncontrolled on Dell Vostro 3560 under Ubuntu 12.10
EDIT: It is 4 months since I asked this question, more than 1000 views, but the bug is still unassigned on launchpad. I suggest that everybody affected logs in and subscribes himself as being ...
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12.10 lost window maximize and minimize options, utility bar and launcher lost too
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Dell Inspiron 7520. Everything is good except the hyperactive fans.The graphic cards are Intel and AMD Radeon 7730. I am trying to get away with the fan problem ...
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lm-sensor and cpu temperatures
I am on ubuntu Precise Pangolin. The processor is Intel i3. a desktop.
I installed lm-sensors and below is the report sensors gave
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +30.0°C ...
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How to disable temp1_max_hyst & temp2_max_hyst or minimize hysteresis on w83667hg-isa-* chip (lm-sensors)?
I have preconfigured temp1_max_hyst:58 and temp2_max_hyst:68 on my sensors output.
How I can disable or minimize hysteresis for setting some fixed behavior of speed scaling of the fan?
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Why fan speed/noise problem occuring on desktop with NVidia GeForce 9600 GT?
OK, first of all, this is not a duplicate, I've read and tried every single thing suggested for solving this sort of problem in this forum and all over the internet and nothing worked, everything from ...
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The fan on my laptop runs constantly in Ubuntu
Maybe someone asked this already, but i must ask why my cooler constantly blowing when i start ubuntu? When I'm on Windows 7 its normal, cooler blowing just when I play some game.
Here is my Laptop ...
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Control fan speed
My laptop works fine in Ubuntu but temperatures are higher than the rare cases I use Windows.
If there a way to tell Ubuntu to turn the fan on earlier?
I'm on Ubuntu 12.10 AMD64 on a Toshiba R830 ...
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Thinkfan broken after update to Quantal
After upgrading my Thinkpad T400 to Quantal, I noticed that the CPU fan became much noisier, it was essentially running all the time. I have configured fan control through thinkfan. I suspect that the ...
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Brightness Crash and Fan issues in 12.04.1 [closed]
I would just like to state beforehand that I am a total novice in using Ubuntu when it comes to the more complex issues. So I thought it would be best to finally come here and ask for help before ...
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CPU Fan really annoying
Nn a Dell Inspiron the CPU Fan is too loud. It is not running constantly, but it changes from slow to really fast every minute. It's really annoying and hardly possible to work on this machine.
Is it ...
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How do I control the fan on a Apple Mac Mini?
I am running 12.04 LTS on Apple mini hardware (about 4 years old). I am new to Linux.
The fan seems to run non-stop. "ThinkFan" is installed but I do not know how to use
it in order to modulate fan ...
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ThinkPad Fan Control error
I was able to install tpfand and tpfan-admin by following the instructions posted here. However, I'm unable to finish all the instructions.
After installing ThinkPad Fan Control I referred to the ...
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How to change CPU fan speed on ThinkPad?
I checked this post on AskUbuntu, but like the OP my BIOS does not have a setting for 'smart fan'. My BIOS though has something similar called 'Thermal Performance' wherein it's already set to maximum ...
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Fan on Acer Aspire 5315 not working
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my old laptop (Acer Aspire 5315 ) and observed that fan is not working properly on Ubuntu.
How could I solve this problem?
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Power management issues on an Asus N55
I noticed that with respect to Win7 on my Asus N55 Ubuntu 12.04 tend to overheat the system. After startup the fan controller takes control of the fan, I could here it slowing down, after a few second ...
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How to control CPU fan with no pwm-capable sensors?
I've tried to follow the directions on this thread:
How to control fan speed?
But at the end of the day, pwmconfig gives me this error:
/usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor ...
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Force CPU fan to run at 100% speed [closed]
i have an Alienware m9700 laptop and want to install Linux on it - preferably Ubuntu.
My problem is: There seems to be some kind of issue with the fan control. Since - only under Linux distros, ...
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How can I keep the cpu temp low?
I have an HP pavilion dv7, I'm using ubuntu 12.04 so the overheating problem with sandybridge cpu is a lot better.
However my laptop is still becoming too hot to keep on my legs.
The problem is that ...
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GeForce 6800 fan speed control; nvclock segmentation fault
I recently did an update on my Ubuntu 11.04.
Unfortunately I can't remember what was updated, but I am sure there were some core things.
Anyway, before that update I could change the fan speed, due ...
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Gnome 3 Ati Fan always on
Hello I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3 installed. I have issues with the fan (I know that there are many threads about this but nothing has worked).
I am using Dell Studio XPS 1640 running ...
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How do I get fan control working?
I know there something called fancontrol, that enables you to control the speed of your system's ventilation. I'd like to let my fans spin a bit faster as my laptop is heating up very easilly. All ...
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My Toshiba's fans do not work automatically
My Toshiba Satellite m505-s4940's fans do not turn on automatically, so it was overheating before I learned how to do it manually by using this keyboard-shortcut:fn+F3
I have to do this every time ...
