Toshiba fan not working

[CBR_Rob]

I am trying desperately to make Ubuntu work on my laptop. I want to use windows as little as possible. The fan on my Toshiba laptop never comes on. Once I get into processor heavy stuff my laptop overheats and shuts itself off. I have a screen shot from a device manager program and it appears to me that there is no driver for the fan. Now is there anyway to get a driver to make my fan work?

[Ozymandias_117]

Have you looked at all in BIOS? I've seen some that you can tell BIOS to take care of it (I assume without help from your Operating System) Or as a temporary fix you may be able to turn it to always on so you don't get shut off.

[chaanakya_chiraag]

Try

sudo toshset -fan auto

in a terminal (Applications-> Accessories-> Terminal). Important: if it asks you for password, you WILL NOT see the password being entered.

[CBR_Rob]

Try

sudo toshset -fan auto

in a terminal (Applications-> Accessories-> Terminal). Important: if it asks you for password, you WILL NOT see the password being entered.

I get a message stating "required kernel toshiba support not enabled" I attached a screenshot of this message.

[QIII]

Ah, the "Toshiba fan with Linux issue" again.

Toshiba apparently has a distaste for Linux. The fan control works just fine in Windows, since Toshiba wanted it that way...

I still see this as an active discussion on launchpad.

I'll see if I can find a resolution for the kernel.

[CBR_Rob]

I just tried this after searching for some more solutions on my fan problem.

"Add the following to your /etc/modules: (sudo gedit /etc/modules)
battery
ac
thermal
processor
acpi-cpufreq
cpufreq-userspace
Restart after adding."

Now my fan seems to be slowly working but when I get into cpu heavy programs (converting video with handbrake, which I will be doing a lot) the temp jumped up from 55 deg c to 90 deg c within minutes. The pc did not shutdown since I stopped the encode at that point. Now after stopping the encode the temp dropped back down to 55 within 1.5 mins. I felt the pc physically get hotter and cool back off. What exactly did I do and can I use this to change the speed of the fan?

[CBR_Rob]

Ah, the "Toshiba fan with Linux issue" again.

Toshiba apparently has a distaste for Linux. The fan control works just fine in Windows, since Toshiba wanted it that way...

I still see this as an active discussion on launchpad.

I'll see if I can find a resolution for the kernel.

Does the Toshiba fan have this issue with earlier releases of Ubuntu? I am thinking of taking 9.10 off and running 8.4 until the next LTS comes out, at least if the fan issue is solved.

[c00lwaterz]

Ah, the "Toshiba fan with Linux issue" again.

Toshiba apparently has a distaste for Linux. The fan control works just fine in Windows, since Toshiba wanted it that way...

I still see this as an active discussion on launchpad.

I'll see if I can find a resolution for the kernel.

Hi,

I have also problem with fan not running in ubuntu/linux. Will the dev help us with this issue? Toshiba want windows only for their machine?

If you have resolution, I appreciate it in advance. I want linux but High temp due to fan (not working on linux) issue, I can't use ubuntu.

[CBR_Rob]

I checked the bios and did not see any fan options. The fan works perfectly fine in Windows Vista.