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Fan does not turn on on Dell D820 Laptop

Asked by Benjamin Prosnitz

The fans on my laptop do not turn on and the system temperature is consistently measured at around 70* C. (Ubuntu 8.04 amd4)

I was hoping to check the fan status using the i8k-utils package, but this does not appear to be available for amd64.

How can I fix this?

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Benjamin Prosnitz (aetherane) said : 		#1

I solve this. For future use, I used dellfand from http://dellfand.dinglisch.net/ .

Installation commands are:
tar xvf dellfand-*.tar.bz2
cd dellfand*
# Compile
make
# Install some files
sudo cp dellfand /usr/sbin
sudo cp etc.init.d.dellfand /etc/init.d/dellfand
sudo cp etc.default.dellfand /etc/default/dellfand
# Start the daemon
sudo /etc/init.d/dellfand start
# Make it start automatically
sudo update-rc.d dellfand multiuser

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oditius (oditius-linux) said : 		#2

I downloaded the program, opened terminal, went to the loacation it was extracted to. And typed all the above. Is there anything else I need to do to get the fans running? I am new to Ubuntu andreally want to get the fans tto operate normally so I can spend time with it and learn more.

Dell XPS M1730
4gb RAM
Nidia 8700 Graphics card
two 200gb drives
Vista Ultimate
Ubuntu 64bit