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Is "thinkpad_acpi: secondary fan control detected & enabled" entry in dmesg indicative of possible fan control on a certain laptop model?
I am gathering information about possibility of fan control through thinkpad_acpi kernel module on different Thinkpads, to compile a list accesible for the community. Existing resources (like https://...
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ASUS motherboard fan control under Linux
I built a machine using an ASUS TUF GAMING B650M-PLUS motherboard and a Ryzen 7 8700G CPU. Linux installed with no problems, but I am missing fan control and monitoring. Under Windows, I use ASUS ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...