Questions tagged [fan]
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cooling system malfunctioning while using NixOS
My cooling system isn't functioning properly on NixOS. I checked the hardware monitor on MSI motherboard but I can't see anything which allows me to adjust fan settings.
how do I create a custom ...
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Nvidia GPU fans doesn't change accordingly to temperature
I've been strungling for a while trying all the possible drivers to have an RTX 3060 and a 4060 ti working in linux. The 'ubuntu-drivers autoinsall' uses the 535 driver, which does not detect the 4060 ...
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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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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:
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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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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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