On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 1:51 PM Fulko Hew <fulko.hew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 12:57 Chris Murphy, <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 9:39 AM Fulko Hew <fulko.hew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > It's been a bad week for me. >> > First my disk drive died, and now I've replaced it >> > and installed F33 (up from F26) >> > >> > After running it for a while it started running flaky, >> > I hadn't installed gkrellm yet. >> > When I did, I noticed that it was reporting a fan speed of 0 RPM. >> > True, it wasn't spinning. Maybe it was overheating that that's why it was getting flaky. >> > >> > [I ran the Dell BIOS hardware test routines, and they spun up the >> > fan and reported no errors.] >> > >> > So I know the fan works, and presumably thats why the hw test >> > spun it up and spun it down again. >> > What I'd like to do is to manually control the fan and look at it's >> > sensor directly (like the Dell hw test does), but I don't know how. >> > >> > Laptop is a Dell Inspiron 5567. >> > I'm not sure where to go next. >> > Thanks >> > >> > Here's a snippet from running 'sensors': >> > >> > $ sensors >> > dell_smm-virtual-0 >> > Adapter: Virtual device >> > Processor Fan: 0 RPM >> > CPU: +36.0°C >> > Ambient: +34.0°C >> > SODIMM: +34.0°C >> > GPU: +30.0°C >> > ... >> >> Quite a lot of thermal management is split up into different areas: >> CPU itself, ACPI, logic board firmware, kernel, and user space. >> >> I suggest making sure the logic board firmware is up to date as a first step. >> >> sensors isn't a default package. New in Fedora 33, thermald is >> installed and enabled by default. I'd give that a chance to work (or >> fail) on it's own without anything else competing. It's expected that >> thermald improves thermal management, but at least to not do worse >> than not using it. If the thermal behavior isn't correct with thermald >> enabled in a default configuration, then the next test is to disable >> thermald and see if the same behavior still happens. If that fixes the >> problem, I suggest a thermald bug report. If it doesn't fix the >> problem, then we need to look at a possible kernel regression. >> >> There are some user space tools that can directly manipulate fans if >> none of the above works out of the box, but I'd consider that a >> fallback > > > I'm not at the machine at the moment, but can you name some of those user space tools ? lm_sensors is fairly generic I think, but I don't use it. There's thinkfan and mbpfan, those are Thinkpad and Macbook specific I suppose. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
