Fan constantly blowing, temperature and emifreq problems

DiZASTiX · 12-07-2006, 03:54 PM

Hey, I'm currently trying to install emifreq-applet to deal with the fan constantly blowing problem which numerous edgy users on laptops have reported.

Well, I was reading that it may have to do with my cpu frequency, thats the reason I'm trying to get emifreq to work. (My problem is very similar to the one described in this thread). Basically, as soon as ubuntu starts loading the fan blows very hard and continues most of the time.

My problem is that when I try to install emifreq I get this error:

Code:

dizastix@petra:~$ sudo apt-get install emifreq-applet 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
emifreq-applet is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up emifreq-applet (0.18-1ubuntu3) ...
Starting CPU frequency scaling daemon: CpuFreq support not available. Check sysfs is mounted and your CPU-specific module is loaded or built in the kernel.
invoke-rc.d: initscript emifreq-applet, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing emifreq-applet (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 emifreq-applet
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I get the same error when trying to install powernowd (I'm guessing since powernowd depends on emifreq?)

Here is some information on my system which my be of some help. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1300. /proc/cpuinfo says my CPU is a "Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor" running at 1.4ghz. When I check the temperature of my system using "acpi -V" it reads from 68 to 77 degrees celcius, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this bad?

I'm dual booting windows XP pro on the same laptop and the fan runs fine in that. Also, there is no options I could find in my BIOS that effected temperature, cpu speed or the fan. However, my cpu usage is always very low, I can just be running firefox and the fan will be blowing at its highest speed.

Any help would be great, thanks in advance...

dombrowsky · 12-29-2006, 03:55 AM

Quote:

Starting CPU frequency scaling daemon: CpuFreq support not available. Check sysfs is mounted and your CPU-specific module is loaded or built in the kernel.

isn't that the problem? your kernel doesn't support it?

nitrousoxide82 · 12-31-2006, 10:06 PM

Yeah, 70+ degrees C　is pretty bad... and it's strange. Frequency scaling works perfectly on my Athlon 64 desktop PC. It can run as cool as 29 degrees C on colder days. I'm quite positive that the stock Ubuntu kernel supports CPU frequency scaling, check the output from lsmod to see if the appropriate modules are loaded, I don't have their names for Intel CPUs out of my head right now... be sure to load them on bootup... I think that should do it.