Toshiba fan not working

[c00lwaterz]

This solved it for me on a 64-bit installation too.

Thanks

what is your laptop brand and model? I have problem and until now now fix.

[armoftheland]

Just followed Ashima's Advice. What a life saver! For my Toshiba A200 MR4, anyway. Also the FN+F3 and log in work around also worked to get the fan on.

Thanks again

[dresnu]

what is your laptop brand and model? I have problem and until now now fix.

It is a Toshiba A100-912

[ahmadz1991]

This was almost doing my head in.
Thought about having to run Windows or sell my new laptop.
Same fan problems with Fedora, PClinuxOS
Here is what works for me. Toshiba L500. 64bit Ubuntu 10.04

first. sudo apt-get install sensors-applet
next. sudo sensors-detect

next. answer yes to everything.

exit then restart computer.

next. sudo gedit /etc/default/grub and then change

GRUB_CMLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to read

..."quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"

next. sudo update-grub to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg

exit then restart computer.


MY FAN NOW STOPS AND STARTS WHEN IT SHOULD



Hope this helps.

THANKS A MILLION.... U JUST SAVED MY LAPTOP

Thanks again... worked like a charm

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THANKS A MILLION.... U JUST SAVED MY LAPTOP

Thanks again... worked like a charm

I'm trying to make every things to work properly in a VM before install in my hard drive. so far so good, except for that fan issue. my laptop is a Toshiba A215 S7437.
after running sensors-detect, i got:
"...Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? (YES/no): yes
Using driver `i2c-piix4' for device 0000:00:07.0: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI
Module i2c-dev loaded successfully.

Sorry, no sensors were detected."

so.... another disappointed toshiba owner

[c00lwaterz]

I'm trying to make every things to work properly in a VM before install in my hard drive. so far so good, except for that fan issue. my laptop is a Toshiba A215 S7437.
after running sensors-detect, i got:
"...Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? (YES/no): yes
Using driver `i2c-piix4' for device 0000:00:07.0: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI
Module i2c-dev loaded successfully.

Sorry, no sensors were detected."

so.... another disappointed toshiba owner

same here. prob using linux on toshiba m900. in windows it has no prob. I will just wait when there is solution. for now I just play cs2d but I got high ping. hehe

[Zaizeku]

This was almost doing my head in.
Thought about having to run Windows or sell my new laptop.
Same fan problems with Fedora, PClinuxOS
Here is what works for me. Toshiba L500. 64bit Ubuntu 10.04

first. sudo apt-get install sensors-applet
next. sudo sensors-detect

next. answer yes to everything.

exit then restart computer.

next. sudo gedit /etc/default/grub and then change

GRUB_CMLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to read

..."quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"

next. sudo update-grub to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg

exit then restart computer.


MY FAN NOW STOPS AND STARTS WHEN IT SHOULD



Hope this helps.

Awesome man, I must thank you Ashima, since 9.04 I've had this problem and the only workaround I had was the suspend thing or restarting the computer. I can finally use ubuntu like it should be. Thanks a lot =D>

[flyfishingphil]

Interesting. I have made no adjustments. Did an Update Manager upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04. Have done several other installs and checked out lots of sites, actions, etc. and the fan system on my Toshiba Sat L305 works perfectly. I can hold my hand out several inches from the left side fan vent and feel the warmer air blowing on my hand.

Just wondering if the problem is in Toshiba, the distro used, or adjustments made by the operator, perhaps unknowingly when making choices in updates, etc, when doing the installation of the Ubuntu. When I did mine I just said "Y" to all of the updates and everything seems to work fine.

[lazypeterson]

This was almost doing my head in.
Thought about having to run Windows or sell my new laptop.
Same fan problems with Fedora, PClinuxOS
Here is what works for me. Toshiba L500. 64bit Ubuntu 10.04

first. sudo apt-get install sensors-applet
next. sudo sensors-detect

next. answer yes to everything.

exit then restart computer.

next. sudo gedit /etc/default/grub and then change

GRUB_CMLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to read

..."quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"

next. sudo update-grub to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg

exit then restart computer.


MY FAN NOW STOPS AND STARTS WHEN IT SHOULD



Hope this helps.

I did all of this up until the point:

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

My grub file is completely blank, so I couldn't replace anything. I'm on 9.04, if that helps.

[lazypeterson]

I did all of this up until the point:

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

My grub file is completely blank, so I couldn't replace anything. I'm on 9.04, if that helps.

Alrighty, my bad. I updated to Grub2 and was able to change it. Still no dice though