Ubunto 11.10 help

[Rhybius]

Hello all,
I hope this is the correct thread for this post, if it is not I apologize and ask one the moderators to place it in the correct thread. Here is my problem, I am running Ubuntu 11.10 on my old Acer 5315 laptop. ( 2 GHz, 1 gig ram, 100 gig hd, just an bargain basement laptop.) Anyway, I digress, after I installed Ubuntu my CPU fan will not run once the OS boots up, it runs during the start up and if I open my bios, but as soon as Ubuntu loads it turns off. Obviously my computer overheats and shuts down. I have looked around and found a fix to run in terminal to correct the problem, but I am having trouble getting it to work. Here is the steps and process I have tried:

You have attached the modified version of acer_fancontrol.

Here is the readme:

1) Download the script

2) Change the directory

Code:

cd Downloads

3) Unpack the script

Code:

tar xvfz acer_fancontrol.tar.gz

4) Change the directory

Code:

cd acer_fancontrol

5) Pick the memory size which matches your memory size(it doesn't matter if the model isn't the same).

Code:

gedit acer_fancontrol

You can use other text editors too.

The options are:

- 512 MB : delete the # from the beginning of the 77th line
- 1 GB : delete the # from the beginning of the 79th line
- 2 GB : delete the # from the beginning of the 81st line

6) Install the script

Code:

sudo cp acer_fancontrol /usr/bin
sudo cp mempat /usr/bin

7) Make it run automatically

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/rc.local


I have tried it several times and I still cannot get it to work, I keep getting an error that says the files does not exist or cannot stat because directory does not exist etc.
Any help, suggestions or showing me what I am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated. I am new to Linux and I really want to get this to work. Also not sure if I need to update my bios and I cannot find how to do that with Linux.

Sorry for the lengthy post and I would like to thank you in advance for your time and any suggestions.

Sincerely
Rhybius a lonely Linux user in need

 

[lxskllr]

What step do you get to? The error your getting is saying you're working with an invalid directory.

 

[Rhybius]

It was at step 6 when I tried to instal the script

 

[lxskllr]

sounds like you aren't working from the right directory. You should be in acer_fancontrol(directory) when you copy acer_fancontrol(file) to /usr/bin

 

[Rhybius]

Ok, so I went back and tried everything from square one, this is the error I get in terminal after i run the script sudo gedit /etc/rc.local
(gedit:3407): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.M8HO7V': No such file or directory

(gedit:3407): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory

 

[lxskllr]

A quick Google says there's some flakiness with gedit and permissions. Try this instead. I don't know why it would work, but who knows?

gksu gedit /etc/rc.local

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Do you have the fan issue when you boot from the Live CD? If not, can you edit and install the script while booted from the Live CD?

 

[Rhybius]

How would I do that from the live CD? I am very new to Linux based OS.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

You'll have to manually mount the hard drive, eg:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

(replace sda1 with the correct partition (sda2, sda3, etc), but sda1 is most likely correct)

Follow the instructions for acer_fancontrol, except for:

(6) install the scripts to

/mnt/usr/bin

and (7) edit the file

sudo gedit /mnt/etc/rc.local

 

[Rhybius]

Thanks for the ideas and the suggestions. I will give those a try, hopefully tonight