Ubuntu
lm-sensors-3 package

Cannot turn off fans

Asked by Adriaan on 2009-10-19

Ubuntu by default is handling my fans very bad. The fans blow harder then needed. That's why i created a script which runs fine on earlier ubuntu. Can u tell me how to do this on karmic? What is the official way to tune the fans?

for a in /proc/acpi/fan/*; do
echo -n 3 > $a/state; #turn off the fan
done

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 19 10:25:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: lm-sensors (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.46-generic
SourcePackage: lm-sensors-3
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

Question information

Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Answered

For:: Ubuntu lm-sensors-3 Edit question

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Last query:: 2009-10-19

Last reply:: 2009-10-23

This question was originally filed as bug #455255.

Adriaan (adriaanvk) said on 2009-10-19:

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said on 2009-10-19:

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .