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I have been having these annoying issues since I initially installed Linux(First distro, Fedora) onto my Toshiba L305D-S59222. I was currently on KDE 4.3.4 and just updated to the beta version 4.4, I’m hopping that would fixed my powerdevile issue of not properly detecting my AC Adapter connected state. When I unplug the Laptop, PowerDevil continues to say it’s still connected and when the power drains completely, the computer shuts off without going to sleep like it’s supposed to. I also have another issue with Fan speed, my Laptop tends to over heat not often but on a occasion. I had heard from another user with the same report(Over Heating), a bit newer Toshiba Laptop but with the same hardware. Where the Fan speed does not increase when the load increases. I’m investigating but I notice that:


comp1:/proc/acpi/fan/FAN1 # cat *                                                                               
status:                  off

The Fan is running but like I said above, it stays constant. I don’t know what to do from here, I’ve been Google’n and I get results like: fancontrol, lm-sensors, or ACPI.

Isn’t this done automatically or does someone has to set it up manually?

P.S. The fan is running, Thank you

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Just a piece of advice: there’s too many issues here, plus the complication of using KDE 4.4 beta which not too many people here use as yet. If you want help do this:

  1. separate the issues and start one threat for each.
  2. revert to a more standard setup which people here have experience with.

Then you might get somewhere…