Do you mean sysfs ?
Yeah, sorry. Everything under /sys/class/hwmon/...
Correct. 1 is too low, though. Default value per datasheet is 0x80.
Whatever it is, it should be high enough for the fans to start spinning.
That won't be enough! I did a bit of experimenting and discovered the
following:
The minimum value for pwm on all fans necessary to keep them going is 75
(decimal) - below that value the fan just stops. The minimum value to
kick-start the fan and make it spin from standstill is 190 (also
decimal) - nothing below this value is sufficient to move the fan from
its standstill position (in my script I use the maximum value - 255 - to
be on the safe side).
So, even if I set the pwmX_auto_point5_pwm to 75 that won't be enough to
kick-start the fan initially. On the other hand, if I set it to 190 that
would be enough, but the fan will continue to spin at this rate which is
very high (I may as well abandon fan/temperature management then).
The F71882FG does not have a register to set a "start spinning" pwm value,
so your minimum must guarantee that the fans do start to spin.
What is your setting for pwmX_enable ? It should probably be set to
automatic(2) so the chip can automatically control the fan speed depending
on the temperature.
It is indeed set to 2.
Even if I bring this value to some "idle" current, that won't help
much because when I first boot the system, the fans are *always*
still, so even if the idle state is >1, that won't help me much, so
there must be another - better - way than using a script to
"kickstart" the fans initially, surely!
Maybe fan control is not set to automatic by the BIOS ?
It is and it is why I am keeping this automatic BIOS fan management in
place and my script only intervenes to kick-start the fans when they are
still, otherwise this automatic control is doing a good job. The problem
is the actual kick-start (and the fact that there is no way I could
force ACPI to abandon the region of memory used by the driver).
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