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Since I have updated to 12.04 LTS my desktop pc's fan runs permanently with high speed and is annoyingly noisy. CPU temperature is low. Here is what the sensors command gets me:

nouveau-pci-0400
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:        +48.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +115.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:       +39.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1:       +40.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 2:       +37.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 3:       +44.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

f8000-isa-0a00
Adapter: ISA adapter
+3.3V:        +3.34 V  
3VSB:         +3.38 V  
Vbat:         +3.23 V  
fan1:        1675 RPM
fan2:         959 RPM
fan3:           0 RPM  ALARM
fan4:           0 RPM
temp1:        +42.0°C  (high = +70.0°C, hyst = +60.0°C)
temp2:        +25.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, hyst = +85.0°C)
temp3:        +24.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, hyst = +85.0°C)

Same issue of noisy fan has been noted in Dell 1555 after upgrade to 12.04 with output of sensors command as below:

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +51.0°C  (crit = +100.0°C)
temp2:        +59.0°C  (crit = +100.0°C)
temp3:        +79.0°C  (crit = +100.0°C)

radeon-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:        +80.0°C

Is there a way to figure out which application is causing it?

Ravi S Ghosh
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Christian
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Same here, and solved with jupiter. It seems there's nothing you can do with that, so the best is keep them low via software when you don't need much power.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/jupiter
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install jupiter
jasmines
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You may try this http://kastang.com/blog/2009/08/manually-change-ati-fan-speed-in-ubunt/

I tested on my 7950 and it works fine (put 0% is ok)

The main part is:

To check the temperature of your card: aticonfig --adapter=0 --od-gettemperature

To change the fan speed: aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 XX"

(Where the XX is replace it with the fan speed percentage)

I also found that compiz cpu was high -> tried this: https://askubuntu.com/a/127310/26508 and it works too.

I reproduce the main part here:

Just backup (rename) ~/.compiz-1 and ~/.config/compiz-1 directories and let them to be created again with the default settings (you'll need to logout and log back in again).

mv ~/.compiz-1 ~/.compiz-1.BACKUP

mv ~/.config/compiz-1 ~/.config/compiz-1.BACKUP

After having restarted and confirmed that everything works as expected, you can simply remove these backups (unless you have a use for them).

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