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pwmconfig can't find fans, which are modifiable in uefi Bios

I would like to change the fan speeds on my PC. In the Asus BIOS settings, this is possible with PWM and DC (three of them are connected with 4 pins), but the running operating system seems to have ...
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Why CPU Freq Crosses Hardware Limits and Policy Limits, and System Heat Up after Hybrid Sleep, in Debian 12 (Testing-Weekly)?

In Debian 12 (bookworm: testing-weekly): Installed auto-cpufreq and thermald, with auto-cpufreq.conf while on charger: governor = performance scaling_max_freq = 1900000 turbo = auto Thought ...
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Controlling fan speed and temperature on 2011 iMac running Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Hardware Apple Inc. iMac12,1

I have been trying to cool this machine down as it had burnt its power supply couple times before and its running really warm. I was able to manually control fans in Ubuntu for a long time, but lately ...
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How to check why do I get a high fan speed?

Previously I had a 128GB NVME Samsung SSD memory on my laptop. I installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on it and everything was great. Then I decided to improve the SSD memory to a 2TB PCI4-3500mhz NVME ...
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ThinkPad L14 Gen2 suspend to RAM turns on fan

Sometimes (I am guessing about a third of the times to half of the times) when I choose Logout -> Suspend, my laptop's fan starts spinning up instead of down. Once I just left it and after a few ...
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How to disable NVidia automatic fan control

When I play games on Linux then the GPU Fan gets very loud because the automatic fan control sets the fan speed to 100% when GPU reaches 80 degrees which is very annoying. This problem doesn't exist ...
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AntiX linux disable laptop fan

I am trying to boot AntiX LiveCD on my old Toshiba A200 laptop with 2 GB of RAM. But when I accidentally launched the "sensors" in the terminal, I saw that the CPU temperature was 70°C! I ...
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Make Ubuntu silent, even in expense of decreasing speed

I have an Intel i3 mini desktop pc, which is used for home server, mainly for Plex. When a user requires certain kind of video transcoding, the machine spins up its fan very loud, instead of it's ...
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Laptop fan control Acer Travelmate 5760

I have Arch linux installed on my old Acer Travelmate 5760 and I was trying to software control the fan speed and status, but I can't find anything about the fan with lshw and lm-sensors and also the ...
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How can I see what programs are communicating with my hardware?

Background: I've been having difficulty controlling my (Ubuntu 20.04) laptop's cooling fans. When the laptop was factory new, it had an app always running which monitored temperature and gave me ...
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Arch linux: CPU temprerature is -125°C (thinkpad x390)

I had some problems with fans in my laptop so I tried to diagnose it. When I run sensors command I get this: ... coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Package id 0: +58.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit =...
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Debian Testing freezing because of overheating, fan sensors give confusing info

I'm running Debian Testing on a Dell Latitude 7480. I've been having a lot of freezing issues, and I have finally narrowed it down to an overheating problem. On battery, I can work for 1hr+ with no ...
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My Dell Fan running high after upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04

I have a Dell XPS 15 9500. I have been happily using 18.04 but keep getting told I need to update to 20.04. I've upgraded, but now the fan seems to be running high pretty much all the time, even when ...
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Why fan gets enabled again and again after thinkfan started and ended once?

I used to manually disable fan writing "level 0" to /proc/acpi/ibm/fan and fan stayed off. Recently I installed thinkfan, started it, then stopped, but manual disabling it stopped working ...
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Why is my Thinkpad T590 overheating even though fan control runs at 127?

I have a problem with my thinkpad T590 on which I recently installed Linux Mint 20.1 Ulissa instead of Windows. I never had a problem with overheating before that but now my laptop regularly looses ...
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CPU fans not working on Dell laptop running Ubuntu

The CPU fans are not working at all on my DELL Inspiron 15R N5110, I am running Ubuntu 20.04.2 Server, and the laptop overheats quickly after a small duration of uptime. I checked the hardware and the ...
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Different CPU fan speed after sleep and reboot but .../hwmon3/pwm1 values stay the same

I'm stuck on a problem with inconsistent CPU fan RPMs on Thinkpad T540p. I use thinkfan on Ubuntu 20.04 to control fan speed. It uses thinkpad_acpi which in turn changes values of /sys/class/hwmon/...
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Cannot run pwmconfig (There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed)

I’m trying to control the fan speed in my laptop (Huawei Matebook D14 2020. AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Vega GPU). I’ve installed lm_sensors, and run sudo sensors-detect. However, when I try to run sudo ...
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Asus PN50 mini-PC: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed

I am running Linux Mint on a PN50 Ryzen 5 4500U. Fan is very loud and I think it can make it quieter with a little bit of fan RPM control. However, I am not able to detect the fan speed: $ sudo ...
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Is it possible to control the fan of a USB connected HDD enclosure?

I've got a USB enclosure for five 3.5" drives, but not only is the fan very loud, it also cools idle drives down to under 30°C, which according to data floating around the Internet increases ...
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How to lock fan speed for amd gpu in Ubuntu 20.04?

I'm trying to lock RPM of my AMD Radeon videocard fans at the full speed: echo 1 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/pwm1_enable echo 255 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/pwm1 What I have tried so far Obviously,...
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Is it normal for GPU to overheat during boot with fans running max

I cant measure how hot it gets during boot but then in desktop after launch it cools down rapidly NVIDIA rtx 3060 ti
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How do I properly configure cpu power settings to not overheat?

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on a Thinkpad T14s. When I push the CPUs hard, i.e. with stress-ng --cpu 8 --tz -t 60, I watch the core temps spike to 90°C before I panic and stop the stress test. The fan ...
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How do I set my GPU's fan curve when using Nouveau?

I accidentally ended up using the Nouveau driver (as opposed to the proprietary NVIDIA driver) for my GPU today and was surprised by how well it worked. I am aware of the reclocking issue (that is, ...
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fancontrol(1) and ipmi

My server supports IPMI, so I can run a script like this: fanspeed() { # 0 C => 10, 55 C => 10, 65 C => 100 sensors -j | jq '[.[]["temp1"]["temp1_input"]] |...
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Where do I put Fan Controller Thermometers in my desktop Linux PC?

I just purchased a 5.25" touchscreen fan controller for my AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core 3.8GHz Desktop PC. I've never used one of these devices before so I'd like to know how to set up the ...
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Suspend-to-RAM breaks ACPI thermals

Sometimes after waking from suspend-to-RAM, my ACPI thermal sensor is "frozen" on a fixed, mostly higher temperature. The rest of the sensors are working fine, but since the fan speed is ...
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How to manually set CPU Fan Speed in Debian Linux?

As my CPU cooler fan broke on a setup with older hardware, I had to replace it with a similar fan, which unfortunately is pretty noisy. I am using the following system: Mainboard Gigabyte F2A88X-Up4 ...
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Turning on fans in ubuntu

My fans don't turn on (ubuntu, on razer laptop). I downloaded lm-sensor in the hopes of manually setting a fan speed, but the fans shut off when I launched it, and I don't feel comfortable trying to ...
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HP ProLiant Server with centOS no fans detected

I tried to find a solution but this whole situation drives me crazy, especially with a server next to with three fans and all run on max with no obvious reason. He seems to have the same problem ...
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HP Spectre X360-15t (2018) overheats on idle with Linux Mint 19.3 and fans do not start

I am a new Linux Mint user currently using version 19.3 with Cinnamon Desktop (installed with MATE but switched). I have observed that my laptop has been running very hot even on tasks like browsing ...
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CPU fan support for Apple iMac

Using Ubuntu 18 (Linux 4.15.0-72-generic) on a mid 2010 iMac 27", I found that the CPU fan always runs on the slow 940rpm regardless of the CPU temperature. Hardware support is great for that machine,...
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No fan control in Linux Mint with Aorus Mobo and Ryzen 7 Processor

My home build is a Ryzen 7 processor on a Gygabyte X470 Aorus motherboard. I run Linux Mint 19.2 Mate and it runs very well. My problem is that the fans are noisy and don't need to operate at full ...
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NVIDIA card fan speed inconsistence

EDIT 1 and temporary solution: This story is a kind of joke as everybody says it's not me it's the other one. Anyway... after looking everywhere. Found a guy who had this issue with another card ...
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Fan constantly running at full speed

Here I am repeating a question previously asked in a sister forum, as it is relevant here and I have neither received a response, nor been able to resolve the issue. On my ThinkPad T470 which is a ...
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Can't control fan on Fedora

After upgrading to Fedora 27 (and now FC30) the fan on my old Dell workstation is running very fast. I have tried using lm_sensors package and "fancontrol". My system is as follows: > sensors ...
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How to control the fan speed in old HP laptop running Ubuntu?

I want to control my laptops fan speed so that fan can nicely cool down. My laptop is HP G62. I tried some suggestions that doesn't seem to work. I didn't tried it on windows. Now I have Ubuntu only. ...
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Laptop fan always says it's running at 8 RPM

I have a Lenovo Legion Y520 with these specs: zjeffer@ArchLinux ----------------- OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Host: 80WK Lenovo Y520-15IKBN Kernel: 5.1.7-arch1-1-ARCH Uptime: 42 mins Packages: 1659 (...
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How to change the system cooling policy on Linux Mint Debian laptop

How may I slow down or turn off my fan in Linux Mint Debian? In Windows 7, it had a function called 'System Cooling Policy' and I had set for passive cooling, so the laptop's fan wouldn't spin up. ...
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Fans always on on HP laptop

I recently installed Debian 9 on my HP-15bsxx laptop (after installing ElementaryOS 5.0 and NOT having this problem), and I have this issue where the fans are always on (not at full speed), even ...
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Multiple Linux distros break BIOS fan control?

I have a strange (and annoying) problem with my ASUS UX32LA notebook: I suspect that multiple Linux distros (Ubuntu 16.04 and newer major versions using the 4.18.0-17-generic kernel, plus Fedora 28 ...
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How to read back a fan speed?

I am on a custom board using an i.MX6. I am using Yocto (Pyro) to build my kernel (4.14.16). I am using the generic imx6qdl.dtsi device tree entry for PWM2 to drive the fan and it appears to work ...
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How to know if CPU fan is ending his life?

I have laptop Dell Inspiron 15 5570 (I'm not using GPU only build in Intel graphic card) and have this issue: I have this output from dmesg: [170178.959009] CPU7: Core temperature above threshold, ...
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thinkfan specifics: manual + auto configutration, if laptop restart needed

I now use Thinkfan by way explained in http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_control_fan_speed. To see what I want to achieve please skip to the end of post to GOAL first, the rest is to show my ...
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Adjust fan speed via Fancontrol according to hard disk temperature (Hddtemp)

How can I adjust fan speed according to hard drive temperature via Fancontrol?
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fan is working always in Asus X542U

I installed Fedora 29 to Asus X542U. Now fan is working always and I can not control it. I tried sudo modprobe asus_laptop command but result is: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'asus_laptop': No ...
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Clevo N141WU noise when fan is cooling

I just bought a Clevo N141WU (at system 76 it's known as the galago pro) from a Danish PC shop. It mostly works really nicely, but when the fan is spinning down (after a hard workload) it starts ...
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What is the state of Linux kernel support for Intel Quiet System Technology (Intel QST)?

I am trying to find a way to access and/or control fan speed via Linux on an Intel Q45 Express/ICH10DO chipset. This chipset contains a feature called Intel Quiet System Technology (Intel QST), which ...
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How to find the hexadecimal address of temperature sensor?

I'm trying to utilize a script (acerfand I believe) to my version of Acer Aspire One laptop to control fan on/off at certain temperatures. To work properly it needs values from temperature sensor. How ...
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How to prevent GPU from overheating and auto turning off

I was wondering how Linux could handle a Gamer Computer, so I have built one, but as we know GeForce does not like Linux so much as AMD, that is why I choose the last. I built up a computer with AMD ...
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