Questions tagged [fan]
Fans are hardware devices used for cooling other devices which generate lots of heat.
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How do I get fan control working?
I know there something called fancontrol, that enables you to control the speed of your system's ventilation. I'd like to let my fans spin a bit faster as my laptop is heating up very easilly. All ...
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Set CPU temperature throttle threshold on Ubuntu/Thinkpad
I receive following error messages a couple of times per hour:
08.03.18 21:27 kernel CPU0: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 2234)
08.03.18 21:27 kernel CPU2: ...
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Manually turn on CPU fan
My BIOS controls my fan speeds, and I want to keep it that way. I have a machine in my basement where it's normally pretty cool, and as long as the machine isn't under high load the fans don't need to ...
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Very high fan speed on Ubuntu 18.04
I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04, alongside Windows 10. On Ubuntu, one of my fans is extremely high, although the temperature is fine, and this is not happening on Windows. I've tried some of the ...
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Fan speed in ubuntu: pwmconfig no pwm-capable sensor modules installed
I followed this guide about how to control fan speed in Ubuntu, but it doesn't work with my laptop (Dell Inspiron 15r).
I installed lm-sensors and fancontrol packages. Then I configured lm-sensors by ...
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How can I change the nvidia GPU fan speed?
So im trying ubuntu again after being off it for awhile in win7 i can set gpu fan to 10-30% and its barly reaching 52c , however with ubuntu nvidia set it to 55% wich is really loud on my msi 460gtx.
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Dell XPS 15 9570 - How to control the fans?
I'm running dualboot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 (using the respin from this link). Everything works properly, however the fans are continuously going on and off. The CPU temp is between 39 - 42 ...
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"Solution" to Intel Graphics Screen Tearing/Flickering Causes Excessive Fan Use in Ubuntu 16.10/17.04/17.10
Several users (one, two, three, four, five) have reported that Intel graphics cards cause severe screen tearing/flickering on Ubuntu >= 16.10. The oft-proposed "solution" is to add the boot parameter ...
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How can I make the fan in my computer turn off when it's suspended? [closed]
When my computer is suspended, the GPU, CPU and power supply fans all continue to run.
I don't think I've ever been able to get them to turn off, short of hibernating or turning the computer off. I ...
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Persistent High-Fan Speed Ubuntu 14.04
I am using a Dell Inspiron 15R 5520 laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 with kernel version 3.13.0-34 generic. Since installing the OS, I have been having issues with my computer's fan spinning at its maximum ...
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Fan not detected by lm-sensors
My fan is blowing hard, while my cpu temperature is 32 degrees
I tried a lot of things to control my fan.
Changed grub file
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi= pci=noacpi"
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How do I know my fan is working in Ubuntu
I just bought a brand new netbook and am worried the fan isn't working properly.
lm-sensors does not detect a fan, I can't hear a fan, and can't feel air blowing out of the fan area.
The netbook is ...
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How can I see the GPU temperture of my ATI graphics card?
I trying to work out how long can my graphics card last with its fan off without overheating.
when I'm browsing the Internet, the graphics card fan is the loudest thing in my computer.
So my ...
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Laptop fan constantly running at a high speed
I am very new to Ubuntu and to Linux as well. I installed Ubuntu 13.10 on my Dell Inspiron 15R laptop. (Intel i7 processor, 8Gb ram). However the fan constantly running at a very high speed ...
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Fan working non-stop on Ubuntu 18.04
I'm running a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 installation. I have an issue with my fan, which is working non-stop. The CPU seems OK. My previous version of Ubuntu (16.04) did not have such a problem.
How do I ...
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CPU hardware errors in Ubuntu 17.04
Can anyone explain to me what these error messages I got when I looked in dmesg? I am new to Ubuntu and to the Linux World.
[ 7.802351] CPU4: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (...
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Thinkfan on Thinkpad T410 - thinkpad_acpi doesn't seem to support fan_control
I try to run thinkfan.
I installed it and configured it.
But if i do this i get an error.
chris@chris-ThinkPad-T410:~$ sudo thinkfan -n
WARNING: Using default temperature inputs in /proc/acpi/ibm/...
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Show Lenovo Yoga 730 fan speed in Kubuntu
On my Lenovo Yoga 730-15IWL with a i5-8265U CPU, the sensors-detect command cannot detect the fans, so sensors cannot show them either.
How can I show the fans speed on such a system?
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PowerTOP "cpufreq_stats failed" and "Devfreq not enabled" running --auto-tone
Basically, I'm trying to reduce the thermals of an Ubuntu install and trying everything. Quiet as can be in Windows 10 except for gaming, as it should be; Ubuntu fans rev up to 75-100% doing simple ...
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How do I control my fan speed?
I installed Ubuntu 13.10 and the fans are quite loud. I followed the instructions on this forum link and configured lm-sensors then attempted to configure fancontrol. I ran lm-sensors as sudo, it ...
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Setting temperature thresholds in i8kmon Ubuntu 14.04
I have an overheating problem with my Dell Inspiron 15R and installed i8kmon to control the fan speeds on Ubuntu 14.04.
Here is a copy of the 'lm-sensors' output:
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA ...
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CPU fan runs continuously
I have a Lenevo Ideapad 720S-13IKB (Type 81BV) with Ubuntu 20.04 in it. Note: Support page.
Even when my computer is at idle and using less than 5% of processing power and less than 1GB ram my ...
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What can I do to prevent Ubuntu from overheating my Notebook?
I have an easynote tj65 (2.1 ghz dual core with Geforce GT240M) running Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 in dual-boot-mode.
While Windows 7 doesn't have any comparable issues, Ubuntu is making my notebook ...
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How to control fans on an asus laptop
I'm dual booting Ubuntu 20.04 on an Asus TUF FX505DT laptop and my main problem now is the lack of control of fan speed of my laptop. When I'm on win 10 I can simply press fn+f5 and circle through ...
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Fan very loud in Ubuntu 12.10
I recently installed 12.10 on my Desktop PC, moving away from Windows 7.
For some reason, the fan in my computer is making an enormous amount of noise (it is running at full speed constantly).
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Cannot configure Fan Speed with pwmconfig
I have a ASUS TP301UJ laptop with dual-boot and my fan is quite loud all the time. I am trying to configure my fan speed in Ubuntu (I did it easily in Windows 10), but I am having problems.
Here is ...
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Fan control on MSI laptop: no pwm-capable sensors?
I'm trying to control the fan speed of my MSI GS60-2PC laptop on Ubuntu 16.04.
But pwmconfig reports that
There are no pwm-capable sensors modules installed
I'm pretty sure these fans can be ...
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dell 7520 (inspiron 15R SE), fan on full speed on 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
The fan on my dell inspiron 7520 (inspiron 15R SE) is constantly running at full speed with a lot of noise.
technical details:
GRAPHICS : 2GB AMD RADEON HD 7730M, switchable/hybrid with intel 4000 ...
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How to control CPU fan with no pwm-capable sensors? [closed]
I've tried to follow the directions on this thread:
How to control fan speed?
But pwmconfig gives me this error:
/usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed
Is there ...
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CPU usage goes to 100% when I lock the screen
Whenever I lock the screen, after a certain amount of time, the CPU and the CPU fan go to their limits, and they return back to normal the moment I unlock the screen again (as shown by psensor).
How ...
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Dell Studio XPS 16 overheats
Since I have switched from Win 7 to Ubuntu, it seems my laptop is much hotter and the fan is much louder. Is it normal behavior or maybe can I fix this by tweaking some settings? If so, what would be ...
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How to submit a bug report to Ubuntu about Raspberry Pi5 fan speed? [closed]
Fan speed control does not work on Ubuntu 23.10 due to they are using an old bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtb file.
That updated file is present in the raspberry repo
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/...
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Dell laptop fan very noisy in Ubuntu 16.04
I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my Dell Inspiron N5110 and I like it a lot. But the problem is that the fan started to behave crazy. It is working almost always making it impossible to focus on ...
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thinkfan control doesn't use the fan full potential when needed
I own a Thinkpad x201 and is overheating very fast because of the environmental temperature and eventually kills himself without notice (and it really grinds my gears).
Outside there are 34 degrees C ...
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Unable to Control NVIDIA Fan Speed
NVIDIA X Server Settings
In NVIDIA X Server Settings it is showing: Failed to set new Fan Speed
From terminal I have tried the following command:
nvidia-settings -a GPUFanControlState=1 -a ...
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Ubuntu on Thinkpad Edge 11/13/14/15 [closed]
I think a community wiki on problems (and solutions) when installing Ubuntu (10.10) on a Thinkpad Edge 11 would be nice (because I just got one ;)). I'll contribute with my own problems and solutions, ...
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8 CPU and one is at ~100% all the time
With :
Ubuntu Release 12.04 (precise) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.2.0-29-generic
Intel® Core™ i7-3635QM CPU @ 2.40GHz × 8
The first CPU is always at ~70%-100% with nothing big running and it is making the ...
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Locked computer gets very hot despite no CPU-intensive tasks running
I'm using Ubuntu 15.10 on my HP ProBook 6470b laptop. When I lock it and walk away from my desk it often gets very hot, very quickly.
Here's a screenshot of Psensor graph which shows the problem, the ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 fan problem on my Asus UX501VW
I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 but my PC starts to run fan at maximum speed when I log in. Once installed I tried to find where the problem is, so I have installed lmsensors, fancontrol and psensor. All ...
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Laptop cooling fan stops suddenly
I'm having this problem for a long time. The cooling solution (single fan for CPU and GPU) on my LG 590 (5700) laptop, suddenly stops to work and don't start again causing overheat and consequential ...
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How to control fan speed on my desktop?
I found a post on "How to control the fan speed on my laptop" but nothing about the same thing on a desktop. I'd like to replicate the same thing on my desktop but till now I had not such luck.
I ...
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pk-debconf-helper process loads a single processor core at 100% after each update. Opting out?
On Ubuntu 20.04.2, with Gnome desktop.
Recently, each time the software updater finishes with the updates, the pk-debconf-helper process kicks in, and keeps loading a single processor core (out of ...
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/usr/sbin/fanctl: No such file or directory in /etc/network/if-up.d/ubuntu-fan" [closed]
After upgrading my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS virtual server the network didn't come up any more and server was unreachable.
My provider had to uncomment the line
/usr/sbin/fanctl net "$MODE" "$IFACE"
to get ...
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continuous running of fans (overheating) on Dell XPS 15 9560
Laptop in title has Ubuntu 18.04 installed and after installing the latest update yesterday (9.7.2018) fan(s) were running continuously. I have proprietary NVIDIA drivers installed and until yesterday ...
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Fan switches between full speed and off on Dell G5
I have a Dell G5 5590 with Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS. BIOS version is 1.11.1.
My fans are constantly switching on and off with a period of 30 seconds (30 seconds full-speed, 30 seconds completely off), even ...
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My Toshiba's fans do not work automatically
My Toshiba Satellite m505-s4940's fans do not turn on automatically, so it was overheating before I learned how to do it manually by using this keyboard-shortcut:fn+F3
I have to do this every time ...
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NVIDIA GPU fan speed configuration only applies to 1 of 2 GPUs
I have two NVIDIA GPUs, and I want to set the fan speed of each separately. When I use nvidia-settings to do this, I can only set the fan speed of [gpu:0], and changes I make affect the device labeled ...
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fan constantly running on hp elitebook 8460p ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
everything works fine with new ubuntu 18.04. but the fan running always, even with minimum usage and overheating,noise in one hour.
please any solutions?
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Unable to get fan to work on Lenovo 14w
I installed Ubuntu 19.10 on my new Lenovo 14w laptop and I noticed that the fans are not running at all, causing high temps.
I have installed fancontrol but couldn't figure out the config.
Running ...
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Dell Studio 15, Turnoff after suspend due to overheat, and does not turnon the fan as well [closed]
I am new to Ubuntu and linux as well, the thing is...
I got strange problem with my laptop, I am not sure is the problem with my hardware or the os
I got: Dell Studio 15 (ATI Graphics Card) with ...
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