solution for a 'crazy fan' after suspend/resume

Chris candive1 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 7 05:33:31 UTC 2011


Try opening a terminal when fans misbehaving and type in "top" nothing else,
no sudo, no quotes.
When you're done looking close the terminal with the x in the corner.

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 5:46 PM, bergfly <bergfly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds like you have an out of control process that doesn't complete
> correctly on resume. Is there a process in system monitor that is
> using all CPU resources on resume?
>
> On 8/6/11, Ralph Pichie <thevillagegeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My HP 620 laptop works well, but after I put it into Suspend mode and
> > then resume activity, the fan goes to maximum speed and will not stop
> > until I turn the power off. This is not good, for the obvious reasons
> > that it forces me to do full shutdown and restart and increases wear
> > on the fan. I'd like to go to job interviews with everything loaded
> > and arranged, put the laptop to sleep then open quickly at the proper
> > time, if needed.
> >
> > Hibernation does not seem to work either, at least I have not yet been
> > able to successfully restore a session from hibernation. Note this is
> > a dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04
> >
> > I am looking at this advice (
> >
> http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/127/how-to-control-fan-speed-lm-sensors-in-ubuntu
> > ) but would like to know if there are other solutions that might work
> > better.
> >
> > Ralph
> >
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