HP DV9310US overheating/fan problem

[Dud3!]

Hi! I've searched and poked around and tried all sorts of things, but I need help!

I've been using Gentoo for a long time on my desktop, but I inherited an HP DV9310 nvidia/amd 64 laptop and abandoned my outdated desktop (for an outdated laptop). It had vista on it and I wanted to use it right away so I installed Debian. Everything worked great and I used it that way for the last seven or eight months without a hitch. I got tired of not having Gentoo and I missed the speed so I installed Gentoo the other day and came back home to my natural habitat.

I must say, Gentoo on this POS is quite annoying to set up. I only have to problems remaining: LCD backlight and the fan not increasing with the temp. The backlight isn't such a big deal right now, I know I can figure that out, but the fan is. The computer will overheat and die if I leave it compiling.

In debian, the backlight buttons on the keyboard worked and popped up a little bar showing the brightness level, and the fan roared to life quite often.

SOOOooooo, those things ARE supported by linux, somehow, I just have to figure out how to make gentoo do them.


Please help!!!! I'm going to try to use wine to extract the rom for my bios and flash it with flashrom because I don't have the latest bios in the hopes it changes the hardware control for the fan, but I still really need this working like it did in Debian.

I'm downloading the Debian live CD and maybe I can figure out what they're doing from that. Otherwise, I'll install it again to my external drive.


Any help is appreciated! If you need lspci or kernel config or whatever, just let me know!
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[Jaglover]

lsmod in Debian may give clues.

Silly question maybe, but you do have acpid running?

[Dud3!]

Yes, acpid is running and added to default runlevel. I went through a power management guide and set up a bunch of stuff. I tried lm sensors but it only finds k8temp and pwmconfig doesn't find my fan.

I don't have any DVDs here so I just installed debian to my usb hdd and it managed to screw up the partitions. I'm going to try to resize them or something and hope it fixes it in the process. Waiting on gparted to compile...
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