HP DV6 notebook unusable with Linux due to fan noise

[Russell Robinson]

On Ubuntu 9.04 and Fedora 11 (and possibly every distribution), an HP DV6-1160TX (and probably all DV6 models) runs the fan loudly 20% of the time for no reason.

The problem does not happen if you run Windows Vista (comes preloaded with the computer).

I've done extensive testing and investigation, which is documented here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13718

At the very least, Ubuntu should flag this HP notebook model as "NOT COMPATIBLE" with Linux.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=544df80e-c8e1-4fcc-b11c-34d79cc56746
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic 2.6.28-13.45
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=dc174a6d-ad12-4890-9c9a-2146da9e81a4 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-13.45-generic
SourcePackage: linux

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Russell,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 399132

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug was filed against a series that is no longer supported and so is being marked as Won't Fix. If this issue still exists in a supported series, please file a new bug.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.