Comment 2 for bug 363152

The I8kfan website says clearly that some laptops are not supported.
Guess I'm just S.O.L.

But the laptop's fans actually start kicking in like 10 seconds after
CPU gets to 60C, which brings it to low 40's. So it's really not that
bad. Had I knew that the temperature was actually pretty acceptable I
wouldn't have filed this bug report.

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:18 AM, zanfr <email address hidden> wrote:
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> any theories about what is going on ?
>
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> i8kfan (and i8kmon) can't control fan on new Inspiron 1545
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363152
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> Status in “i8kutils” source package in Ubuntu: New
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: i8kutils
>
> I run 9.04 amd64.
> i8kfan always returns '-1 0', and never spins the fan
>
> $ i8kfan 2 2
> -1 0
>
> ...and the fan always stay quiet.
>
> The fans will turn on, but only until the CPU gets to about 70C.  I suspect that is the bios kicking in.
>
> i8kmon -v reports the state correctly, but it's clear that the calls to /usr/bin/i8kfan do nothing.  I use the default config, and have tried other /etc/i8kmon files from forums etc.