Ubuntu 9.04 and noisy fan

I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my AA1 (a0a 150) via a Wubi installation. The fan will not stop running even though the laptop is cool to the touch.

I tried this fix:

Some Acer Aspire One netbooks out there suffer from a noisy fan. Mine too and it was really starting to drive me crazy. I really wouldn’t want to be caught using it in a quiet place like a library for example. Luckily there’s a couple of scripts you can use to control the fan. The aspireone.net Wiki has all the details, but here’s a quick rundown of what you need to do to get rid of the noise:

download the acerfand daemon script
download the acer_ec.pl script (direct download)
Copy both files to /usr/local/bin
make acerfand executable using chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/acerfand
open /etc/rc.local as root (or use sudo) and add /usr/local/bin/acerfand at the end of the file

This did not change a thing. Does the Wubi installation prevent Ubuntu from controlling the fan?

 

For one, wubi is not the way to go, its a bad idea IMO on so many different levels.
For two, slowing a system fan down or turning it off is a bad idea, it really is not that loud (at least mine is not) and it is there for a purpose.

The wubi install might very well affect this, but I am unsure. I would do a normal install and see if its still too loud for you likings. If it is, let us all know.

 

The other day I screwed up like a n00b. For a few days I was bothered by some hissing noise from my aspire one, it sounded like a fan was working full speed. I was quite bothered by this and began monitoring cpu usage and temperature, both were quite low. So after some fiddling around it turns out my internal mic boost was on max level and, considering shitty quality, the sound system was outputting white noise on internal speakers. Not sure if your problem is similar but maybe it is worth checking.

 

My problem is the fan. I put all volume levels to minimum and applied mute. Same level of noise and air is coming out of the exhaust vent.

 

What about this...

 

I just tried this. Error 2 about not finding a subdirectory. Ubuntu is not worth the effort.

 

Sorry to bump an old post but this completely misses the point. There is a bug where the fan runs at max all the time, much more than it needs to stay within the proper operating temperatures. This disadvantage of this is not the noise ( I agree it's not horribly noisy) but that it drains the battery much faster. Given that one of the main advantages of the AA1 is long battery life, this is a serious issue.

Mine has this problem but it's off for repairs right now. When it gets back I'll try the workaround. Let us hope that in the future they fix it in the kernel. Or I could fix it I suppose but I'm not a kernel expert.

 

I also suffered this problem, i was missing the linux-headers to compile the acerhdf module. Doing the following command should grab the linux-headers needed to successfully install the module....

Code:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

and a question? do you control the temperature the same way as with the old acerfand script with the /etc/acerfand.conf file or is it done differently now?

i'd really like to know, thanks in advance.

 

Allways a good idea to read the included readme file :
CONFIGURATION / PARAMETERS
acerhdf has following parameters:
o interval=10 - The interval in seconds, in which the temperature should be
checked in kernel mode. (default=10)
o fanon=67 - The temperature in Celsius above the fan should be switched on.
(default=67)
o fanoff=62 - The temperature in Celsuis below the fan should be switched
off. (default=62)
o verbose=0 - Print out verbose messages to dmesg. (default=0)
o force_bios="" - For testing purposes, see below.

Those parameters can be set when loading the module. E.g:
'modprobe acerhdf interval=5 fanon=65 fanoff=60'
You can add them to '/etc/modprobe.conf', so that they are automatically
applied, when the module is loaded. The line in modprobe.conf can look like
this:
'options acerhdf interval=5 fanon=65 fanoff=60'

 

About 10 days ago I installed Ubuntu 9.04 in a partition on an AA1 150; there is no discernible fan noise (beyond a very subdued hum), although the fan whooshes briefly (1-2 sec) when first powered on, until it gets to the grub boot menu. Acer BIOS v1.05.

Although it doesn't automatically suspend when I close the lid (despite a config setting to do so), manual suspend works correctly. If I just close the lid, the fan keeps running, there are intermittent disk accesses, and it never cools down; with a proper suspend, the fan shuts off within seconds.