Fix for my fan on Dell XPSm140

[vdubhack]

I had been thinking my fan had just gone bad in my laptop, but figured I should do one last google attempt before opening it up to replace the fan. I found there was a bug in 8.10 ubuntu that was causing some computers to not access i8k properly to trigger the fan. Pretty much the second I finished the commands below my fans kicked on full charge.

Where I found the fix:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...id/+bug/160291

the fix for it was:

echo i8k >> /etc/modules
echo options i8k force=1 >> /etc/modprobe.d/i8k.modprobe

Hope this helps someone else and I hope I didnt post this one in the wrong area again as I am sure this is just a beginners fix.

[xX_Spiidey_Xx]

thanks for posting this fix! i'm sure it will help somebody down the road.

good job, and this is the kinda stuff we need around here!

xX_Spiidey_Xx

[Encrypted_Soldier]

Great Job! We need more people like you around here.

[clutch]

How long were you running with no fan?

0_0

[vdubhack]

A few days but it was only on a few hours at a shot. I have been having it sit on one of those cooling mats. I know it was bad to not look at right away but its not my main laptop and well I have a few others just sitting around. Gotta love dumpster diving,

Now to attempt to patch the kernel with 3 seperate patches for some errors I have been getting and see if I can solve those, Which I think will also get rid of an x-server error I have anyways thats another thread when I can post all the info properly

[Archangel-Amael]

Can anyone else confirm that their fans do not work?
If this is the case we can move this to the fixes section.
Also OP make sure you take a look at this link before you go messing with your kernel.
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...m-up-date.html Especially the post from mut's.

[vdubhack]

Thanks for the link about the Kernels I have gone through that one and tons others already. The only reason I wanted to try and see if these fixes work is because they are kernel errors that seems to have only happened with the 8.10, I can post all the errors if you would like they are mostly video errors that I am getting. I have seen 4 seperate patches that are suppose to fix the video errors. Just figured if I could post the fixes at the same time as the errors would save people the troubles. If you would like to me to post them I can make a new post in bugs if thats appropriate.

Also the fan issue according to the bug reports for ubuntu state the fan issue is mostly common in unsupported models in i8k.