

If you look at the output of sensors command for my dual-core computer and compare it with yours, you'll find that the fan speed your computer is using is keeping your processors cool, which is important.In my case the processor temp are high but fan speed is low. I don't think you need to control fan speed, actually fan should not make much sound even at high speeds. I'm not sure if any of these temps seem high. When I run the sensors command I get the following output.


However when I ran pwmconfig it said "There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed". I ran lm-sensors as sudo, it found some things and I loaded the modules it recommended into the kernel. I followed the instructions on this forum link and configured lm-sensors then attempted to configure fancontrol. I must add that the /proc/acpi/fan and thermal control directories are lonely empty (and this seems strange).I installed Ubuntu 13.10 and the fans are quite loud. Temp=`cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature | awk ''`īut nothing happens. Consequently, running "sensors" does not give any output. I tried modprobing i2c-i801 (and I get no output after the modprobe command), but it seems not to be any smartbatt driver installed on my system. # into the kernel, or unavailable, comment out the following line. # Warning: the required module smartbatt is not currently installed This is quite annoying, and I fear it could anyway be a problem in future.Ĭonsequently I would like to check the CPU temperature using lmsensors, and possibly to control the fan speed using fancontrol, but when I run sensors-detect I get this code to be pasted into /etc/modules:

The cooling fan runs about the 60% of the time, even if I cannot feel any particular warming of the laptop. I run Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex on a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook S7020D notebook.
