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peterwil (peter-william) wrote : Re: [Bug 382806] Re: Fan doesn't switch on TOSHIBA L305D in Hardy Heron

Hello there Wouter after quite some time...
Did you get your Toshiba L305 working right with Ubuntu.
Just this morning I posted a response to the bug report..

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500666

Pl. see..
Cheers and best regards
Peter

Wouter de Groot wrote:
> Same machine, also having temperature issues, running jaunty x86-64.
> The reason acpitool doesn't work is that it requires the toshiba_acpi kernel module, which does not work for this model, apparently.
>
> Fan control seems to be hit and miss. Sometimes the fan will not spin
> faster when it really should be, sometimes it starts spinning fast and
> does not slow down again until I suspend and resume the machine. I have
> no idea how to manually tell the fan to do something.
>
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