ASUS M51VA: Fan always on

[tkalfaoglu]

On my Fedora 10 ASUS M51VA, the fan starts soon after the machine is booted, and is never turned off.

Right now, sensors displays:
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +31.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 1: +31.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
and the /proc/acpi/fan directory is empty -- therefore it seems no fan is found.

Does anyone know how to fix it?
Many thanks, -tk

[Dastekcom]

I have an ASUS F3JP the fan is also running all the time.

[tkalfaoglu]

I found a script which I edited and put into rc.local to run, it sets the fan speed beautifully, depending on the CPU temperature..

#!/bin/sh

OLD_SPEED="0"
OLD_TEMP="0"

setSpeed () {
	if [ "$1" != "$OLD_SPEED" ]; then
		echo "new speed   $1"
		OLD_SPEED="$1"
		/usr/local/bin/fan "$1" > /dev/null
	fi
}

while [ 1 ]; do
	TEMP=`cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature | awk '{print $2}'`
	if [ "$TEMP" != "$OLD_TEMP" ]; then
		echo "temperature $TEMP C"
		OLD_TEMP="$TEMP"
	fi

	if [ $TEMP -gt 65 ]; then
		setSpeed auto
	elif [ $TEMP -gt 60 ]; then
		setSpeed 13
	elif [ $TEMP -gt 55 ]; then
		setSpeed 11
	elif [ $TEMP -gt 50 ]; then
		setSpeed 9
	else
		setSpeed 1
	fi
	sleep 2
done