How to: Karmic Koala on Acer 1410 / 1810T/ 1810TZ

[Janghou]

Thanks Patrick, for all your good work. This thread has been a major source of info for me.

I have updated to Ubuntu 11.10 and, it runs quite well on the 1810tz, although Unity has it quirks: Unity2D seems to have a better app switcher.

I still use your script: I used it yesterday after the latest Linux headers update I noticed the noisy fan.

After running your script it's quiet again.

Thx again and good luck!

[sitic]

Finally upgraded to Natty. Despite now being on kernel 2.6.38-11-generic, which should include the fan module, the fan is now running high again. So I tried to re-install acerhdf, but get this message:

xxx@xxx:~/Downloads/acerhdf_kmod$ sudo modprobe acerhdf
FATAL: Error inserting acerhdf (/lib/modules/2.6.38-11-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.ko): Invalid argument

A little late response:
Try this command:

sudo -s
modprobe acerhdf force_bios=v1.3310
echo -n "enabled" > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/mode

If it works do this:

echo "options acerhdf verbose=0 fanon=60000 fanoff=55000 interval=5 kernelmode=1 force_bios=v1.3310" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/acerhdf.conf

and put

echo -n "enabled" > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/mode

before the "exit 0" line in /etc/rc.local