Hi, Disabling i8k module might be the way to go. When I removed the i8k module the fan went silent. I first waited for the fan to go crazy and then I removed the module with rmmod. Now I cannot track the speed of the fan and some programs fail to report cpu temperature. But `sensors` seems to work (without fan speed). Also I think that the laptop is safe too, I see that the fan is still blowing air when it needs to.I'll investigate this further.
Thanks, Vladimir On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Dan <ganc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 8:17 PM, / vt <inspell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am just joining and ... I need some help ; ) > > I am running on a DELL laptop (E6420). I moved to Debian Jessie recently > > (from Wheezy) and now I am struggling with very annoying problem. The > > problem is that my cpu fan is out of control. It starts and stops in a > loop > > (increases speed, then decreases speed, then increases again in short > > amounts of time). At some point it becomes quiet but after some time it > > starts again. I've installed i8kutils and acpitool but this still > continues > > Maybe the i8k module is not compatible with your laptop. Did you try > to make sure that the i8k is not loaded? > Check that the i8k is not loaded with lsmod. In Wheezy I think that > the pre-loaded modules are found in /etc/modules. > Probably with Jessie you will have to deactivate the service that > loads i8k using systemctl, but I do not know how to do that. > > Best, > Dan >
