[ltp] Fan control under ubuntu

[João Miguel Pais]

> What's the room temperature? What's the CPU temperature? What's the CPU  
> freq?
>
> I have an R51 and in winter the fan stops without problems when the CPU  
> (or whatever) temp drops below ~37°C. Now it's summer and I have no air  
> conditioning, the room temperature is well above 25°C (almost 30°C) now  
> I don't see the CPU below 40°C, that means the fan never stops  
> (fortunately).

my "reference" is windows Xp, because that's the system I use the most  
until now: I live in a cool basement, so it's always cool. although for a  
few months I was in Lisbon in the holidays, where it is quite warm, and  
the the computer just started "fanning up" each summer, even if I was in  
the basement (which didn't do before).
But with linux the fan just starts working after a couple of minutes and  
doesn't stop at all, unlike windows. also when the temperature doesn't  
justify it.

I'm not totally new to linuxes, but I still have a lot to learn. can you  
recomend a program to control/view these (and maybe other?) aspects of the  
hardware?