It seems that with kernels 3.9 onwards there are some issues with fan speed and the 6730b model of HP notebook. I tried with Fedora 22 (my main distribution of choice), openSUSE Tumbleweed and Ubuntu 15.04. The problem occurs only when the system is woken up after a sleep/suspend: fans spin at full speed indefinitely, … Continue reading HP 6730b and fan at full speed after suspend (Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE)