Comment 40 for bug 748574

Hi, rather than just add a "me too", I thought I'd tell you what I've found with this same bug and a (kind-of) workaround. Perhaps it'll help someone far smarter than myself solve this bug.

I've got a Toshiba Satellite l300 with a pitiful 2 gigs of ram. Intel Celeron dual core jobbie (i think) that ambles along at about 2.6 gigahertz.

I boot up into Ubuntu 11.04, and as soon as my processor heats up the fan kicks in at full speed to cool it down, then continues at that speed.

I put the computer into suspend (and the fan goes off), and upon resume it behaves in a normal fashion i.e. spinning at variable speeds depending on the processor load.

It [the fan] does not, however, turn off completely, but it does run at a low enough speed to only produce an amenable 'hum'.

Perhaps this will prove an unorthadox workaround for similarly afflicted users.