FAN won't stop!

[LizardMan]

Hello Everyone... I'm a Ubuntu user and enjoying my Linux world immensely. With one exception... the fan on my laptop runs at high speed constantly. This doesn't seem right... machine is idle, no load, and fan is running full bore. The constant noise is annoying, the constant breeze across my knees makes me cold, and at this rate I'll burn out my fan and then I'll really be stuck.

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on a Toshiba Satellite L300D laptop. Everything works well except for the fan thing and the special keyboard function keys (like brightness control). Volume control works OK.

I've read with interest various posts in different forums about fan and ACPI issues with Toshiba laptops, but now I'm stuck. I've fiddled with a couple things like toshset and fnfxd, but neither worked... both complained about kernel toshiba support, but I don't know what to do about that.

Any suggestions are truly appreciated...

[Alboguy]

No idea kristin70...

[In-f3st]

Have you checked if there is any options for the fan in you BIOS?

[hellnoire]

If the BIOS has no options for the fan, take a look at the Ubuntu forums and post to them. They'll know exactly the right way to work it.

I might be a Linux user, an advanced one, but I don't remember the fix I had for that.

[LizardMan]

I have checked the BIOS but my laptop doesn't have any option to change fan speed or adjust the temperatures. This problem doesn't exist on Windows only on Linux!
I will see the Ubuntu forum and if it is a way to fix it, I will post here the solution for all of them who have the same problem.

[LizardMan]

I think the problem is solved. I just removed some packs from Synaptic Package Manager and the fan now is more quite than before, it doesn't stop but it's more quite. What I removed was some power managers to help power management i some laptops like Toshiba, Acer,HP and some others. Finally my laptop is running quite again !

[hellnoire]

That's good to hear I haven't used Ubuntu on my laptop in a while, and when I did, it didn't have any problems... might just be because this is a LTS so they have to support as much as they can.

[tarung1793]

ubuntu is just bad with batteries, it gives me just ~60% of battery which i used to get in windows..