Dell Inspiron 1200 Ubuntu 7.10 Fan not working

[Tim M]

On 10/16/07, Darren Mansell <darren at vcoc.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Paul S wrote:
> > NoOp said the following on 10/16/2007 01:19 PM:
> >
> >> On 10/15/2007 04:10 AM, Tim M wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> P.S. Under 7.04 I was finally able to get a little program to get the
> fan
> >>> working but set on automatic it ran all the time flat out. When I have
> the
> >>> hard drive with XP installed in the laptop the fan is seldom on. Of
> course
> >>> with XP I have no idea what the cpu temperature is.
> >>>
> >
> > My laptop also got real hot after I installed gutsy.  I couldn't figure
> > out why, but finally got gkrellm running and noticed the cpu running
> > near 100% all the time.  Turns out the new desktop search feature
> > "tracker" was the culprit.  Once I turned it off by menu System >
> > Preferences > Indexing Preferences, my cpu dropped to low and the
> > temperature came back to normal.  So, maybe you should check this if
> > you're afraid to run gutsy to troubleshoot the problem.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> >
> I have to add p4_clockmod to my /etc/modules to get my Celeron to
> speedstep.
>
> GOT IT! Thanks guys. I had install gkrellm BUT needed to tweak the
configuration file. All it took was adding a line . . .
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=433671
Anyway, it is working well.

Tim
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