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I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my DELL Inspiron 15R.

Since I have installed it, my fan is constantly spinning, even I do absolutely nothing. I found this post and I decided to install i8kutils. Just after I installed it, my fans are now not spinning at all!! This is very dangerous for my laptop... If I run i8kfan -1 2 my fan is spinning for 1-2 seconds in full power, and then stops again. What I should do?

I also tried the following that exist in this answer:

Put ENABLED=1 in /etc/default/i8kmon

Put set config(auto) 1 in /etc/i8kmon.conf

UPDATE:

Please also find the output of this command $ /usr/bin/i8kmon --verbose here

ps1: I should mention that my laptops fans work flawlesly when using windows.

ps2: I also know that there are numerous similar questions out there. I spent many hours studying them and I couldn't find any good answer. Therefore, I am seeking for a good answer, than closing down my question as duplicate.

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  • As I still have the problem @Oli, can you please unblock the question? The question you proposed that is similar to mine does not resolve my problem – Jim Blum Jul 01 '14 at 10:29
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    If this helps http://askubuntu.com/questions/522954/setting-temperature-thresholds-in-i8kmon-ubuntu-14-04/527333#527333 – αғsнιη Oct 04 '14 at 17:42
  • This helped me (specifically, the smm command described in the link): http://askubuntu.com/questions/63588/how-do-i-get-fan-control-working – axel22 Dec 13 '15 at 22:41

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Finally, I found it (I think :p). The site mentioned in the question says that the configuration should be copied at the file: /etc/i8mon.

However, they should be written here: ~/.i8kmon instead. And I think it works fine this way.

Editor's Note

The actual error was in the forum post which OP was following. Although the author intended to say to change in /etc/i8kmon file, They mistakenly wrote /etc/i8mon instead in the code section. Since, OP was following the code, the configurations didn't work.

OP saved the configs in ~/.i8kmon and that worked because user's config stored in ~/ is preferred than the ones in /etc and that way it was overriding the default configs. So, OP's assumption is wrong. Both /etc/i8kmon and ~/.i8kmon would work. The error was in somewhere else.

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