Lots of binaries come with a config file dependency that isn't automatically created by the installer but instead a 'template' of the file can be found either in it's documentation or it's binaries directories.
Have a squiz at 'man fancontrol' (pop it into terminal) and perhaps http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=42737 can help even though it is pretty old - Google returned it as the most relevant result to http://www.google.com/search?q=howto...trol+in+ubuntu when I tried it here.
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