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Alexander Adam, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu
better. This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any
activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? As
per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/PowerManagementASPM a patch was
issued to address heat
I think the problem why the fans are so noisy are based on various
problems:
#1: radeon module fan control:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-driver-ati/+bug/748080
#2: I think the basic power consumption of the laptop is quite high so the lost
heat is quite high (I got about 68°C while I'
I have\had the same problem.
When I'm in inside a X session and i turn off the discrete videocard,
the wattage doesn't drop and the fan still on, but if i use:
echo DIGD > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
only after the suspend it works. If i put this command line inside
rc.local, it d
Ah ok. update-initramfs -u helped me to unload this.
So with blacklisting radeon it got definitely less noisy (but never silent). :-(
If someone has an hint what else could prevent the fan action I am sure
that acceptable working is finally pretty close. :-)
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Do you still use vgaswitcheroo then or do you just use the integrated graphics
card and are unable to switch to the dedicated one?
If your system is noisy without blacklisting the radeon driver it could be that
vgaswitcheroo doesn't work right and associated with
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lpbug
I don't have this issue with my 700Z5A. Though I had to blacklist radeon
module to prevent it from consuming insane amounts of power (and using
the fan constantly). Maybe adding
blacklist radeon
to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf helps.
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fan of 700Z3A is always noisy
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** Tags added: staging
** Description changed:
On Ubuntu 11.10 the notebook fan is nearly always running.
It begins shortly after passing grub. Sometimes the fan is silent when
shutting down after exiting X11 (and before the computer is off) so I could
image that it reli
