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cabral27
Asked: 2010-08-18 17:45:36 +0800 CST

My Toshiba's fans do not work automatically

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My Toshiba Satellite m505-s4940's fans do not turn on automatically, so it was overheating before I learned how to do it manually by using this keyboard-shortcut:fn+F3

I have to do this every time I use my computer!

I really like the performance of Ubuntu, and I just began to use and love it, but I would like to solve this problem.

Hopefully someone can help me, and sorry about my English. It is not my native language : )

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3 Answers

  1. This has been reported here and here and here (kernel).

    There appears to be one workaround:

    1. Boot up
    2. Suspend
    3. Wake it up
    4. ACPI should work (fans should work, the lid should sleep it, etc)

    If this doesn't work, I recommend you don't run Ubuntu until it's fixed as letting it overheat is very dangerous to the hardware.

    Of course if you can help the kernel devs find a fix for this, the faster you get the fix.

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  2. You can use the toshiba utils Certain Toshiba's laptops to control fan speed.

    http://www.buzzard.me.uk/toshiba/index.html

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  3. got the same problem, this fix solved it completelty http://tuxtweaks.com/2008/08/how-to-control-fan-speeds-in-ubuntu/

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