Ubuntu 9.0.4 Presario S4000NX Fan Speed

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Published on 2009-08-24T16:38:09Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 9:51 UTC
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I recently install Ubuntu 9.0.4 on a Presario S4000NX and the CPU fan speed is kept at max. With Windows XP installed the fan speed would increase/decrease as required.

I've tried to install lm-sensors and run the sensors-detect. It recommended that I load the modules which I did:

smsc47m192  
i2c-i801

When running sensor-detect it gave me this strange message:

Trying family SMSC
Found SMSC LPC47M15x/192/997 Super IO Fan Sensors
    (but not activated)

Running the sensors command gives me a list of voltages and CPU and temperature but doesn't list any fans.

After doing some Internet research I then tried to load the smsc47m1 module but I get the following error:

FATAL: Error inserting smsc47m1 (/lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/kernel/drivers/hwmon/smsc47m1.ko): no such device

The file smsc47m1.ko does exist in the listed folder.

Any suggestions for getting the fan speed (and the noise) down in Ubuntu? Thanx.

- Chris

P.S. - I would have put better tags but Server Fault wouldn't let me.

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