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I cant seem to figure out how to control my fanspeed. The laptop is getting too hot and shutting down after i upgraded to new 12.04 ubuntu. The fan does not sound like it is running as fast as normal. Please help

Michael Yaddow
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You may want to take a look at this if you are only using Ubuntu:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=42737

If you can use a different operating system (Windows) try AMD Overdrive for an AMD processor machine or Speed fan otherwise:

http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php
llamositopia
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  • i am running straight ubuntu. nothing else. When i go to the link and try what it says it keeps telling me i need to be in root to perform?? Please help – Michael Yaddow May 11 '13 at 01:26
  • To be in the root user use: sudo su or just preceed all commands with sudo to execute as if you were root without actually being root. – llamositopia May 11 '13 at 14:21
  • mike@mike-laptop:~$ pwmconfig File /var/run/fancontrol.pid exists. This typically means that the fancontrol deamon is running. You should stop it before running pwmconfig. If you are certain that fancontrol is not running, then you can delete /var/run/fancontrol.pid manually. mike@mike-laptop:~$

    this is the message i am getting now. Any ideas?

     – Michael Yaddow May 12 '13 at 03:15
  • Delete it. Run the same command again. – llamositopia May 12 '13 at 19:14