I am having Acer 5920 (64bit ,intel mobile express 965 chipset family) laptop.
I have been using ubuntu 8.04 64bit on it for a while.Even internet browsing
makes the temprature of laptop to shoot to above 50C.I have tried configuring it a lot(using pwmconfig , gkrellm ...).
But they either fail installing successfully or fail to control my fan speed.
Now I am looking for a distro which probably can control my fan speed.
I am even ready to use a 32 bit version OS.
(Even though I am not able to control my fan speed while using windows xp I always get a feel that temperature of laptop get "attracted" to 40C while using XP)
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Jump to PostI've never installed linux on a laptop (driver issues on the laptops I've had) but did you remember to install the "laptop" packages with ubuntu?
Jump to PostI have Ubuntu with HP Laptop with No Problem. Couldn't that be more hardware than software?
Jump to PostMake sure that your kernel has the necessary modules to detect and control your fan speeds. When I'm running Linux on my MacBook, my fan settings appear in the virtual filesystem /sys:
localhost:~ $ ls /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_* /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_input /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_label /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_manual /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_max /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_min /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_output /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_safe
From there, I can write various numbers …
Jump to PostI'd suspect your fan control settings would be in /sys/devices/platform/acer_acpi.
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