I think it may be a little premature to mark this bug as a duplicate of 88815. Chris, can you apply the workaround in 88815 and see if you still have the fan issues? If you do, then we should instead mark https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi/+bug/92117 as a duplicate.
FYI, on my Dell Inspiron 510m running latest Feisty, my /proc/acpi/fan dir is empty, but my fan seems to almost never turn itself on.
I think it may be a little premature to mark this bug as a duplicate of 88815. Chris, can you apply the workaround in 88815 and see if you still have the fan issues? If you do, then we should instead mark https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ acpi/+bug/ 92117 as a duplicate.
FYI, on my Dell Inspiron 510m running latest Feisty, my /proc/acpi/fan dir is empty, but my fan seems to almost never turn itself on.