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Thinkpad fan control
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Thinkpad fan control
Hello everybody,
I am quite a newbie in linux trying to find enough reasons to leave Windows. Running Linux mint and ubuntu a I tried to control my thinkpad fan because in linux the fan goes still at 3600 rpm - so I installed various thinkpad fan control apps (see http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_control_fan_speed) but without any effect (it just does not listen to the apps; btw: yes, I have thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1)
What should I do to get it working? Does anybody here have any other suggestion/experience?
Thanks a lot!
(T410i)
I am quite a newbie in linux trying to find enough reasons to leave Windows. Running Linux mint and ubuntu a I tried to control my thinkpad fan because in linux the fan goes still at 3600 rpm - so I installed various thinkpad fan control apps (see http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_control_fan_speed) but without any effect (it just does not listen to the apps; btw: yes, I have thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1)
What should I do to get it working? Does anybody here have any other suggestion/experience?
Thanks a lot!
(T410i)
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Re: Thinkpad fan control
I had all sorts of trouble with many of the recommended solutions at thinkwiki so I rolled my own.
Logged in as root (sudo -i) I created this script on my T60. I don't do anything that exercises the GPU too heavily so it looks at the CPU only.
root's crontab includes an entry to run that script every 5 minutes.
Quick. Dirty. Works for me.
Logged in as root (sudo -i) I created this script on my T60. I don't do anything that exercises the GPU too heavily so it looks at the CPU only.
Code: Select all
#!/bin/sh
CPUTEMP=`cut -f 2 /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
if [ $CPUTEMP -lt 53 ]
then
SPEED=0
elif [ $CPUTEMP -lt 60 ]
then
SPEED=2
else
SPEED=auto
fi
echo level $SPEED > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
Quick. Dirty. Works for me.
[ex] R51 1836-QNU W700 2752-RZ2 T60 2007-4BU T60 2007-5TU · [now] T420i 4177-CTO T60 2007-73U
Re: Thinkpad fan control
You need to add experimental=1 as a module parameter as well.Teddy_the_Bear wrote:Hello everybody,
I am quite a newbie in linux trying to find enough reasons to leave Windows. Running Linux mint and ubuntu a I tried to control my thinkpad fan because in linux the fan goes still at 3600 rpm - so I installed various thinkpad fan control apps (see http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_control_fan_speed) but without any effect (it just does not listen to the apps; btw: yes, I have thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1)
What should I do to get it working? Does anybody here have any other suggestion/experience?
Thanks a lot!
(T410i)
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- Joined: Sun Jun 12, 2011 1:24 pm
- Location: Czech Republic, Prague
Re: Thinkpad fan control
at both ends wrote:I had all sorts of trouble with many of the recommended solutions at thinkwiki so I rolled my own.
Logged in as root (sudo -i) I created this script on my T60. I don't do anything that exercises the GPU too heavily so it looks at the CPU only.
Quick. Dirty. Works for me.
Thanks a lot. It seems to do something (I don't understand a bit of the code), but then it goes back to constant 3500 rpm. After hiting the code, fan stops for a second and then it goes back to 3500... (Temperature at testing the solution: 49)
Thanks. I did that, no result.You need to add experimental=1 as a module parameter as well.
EDIT: I did it. thanks to thinkfan utility. I had to uninstall thinkpad fan control and now everything works just fine
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Re: Thinkpad fan control
EDIT: I did it. thanks to thinkfan utility. I had to uninstall thinkpad fan control and now everything works just fine
Hi,
I am new to this as well so forgive me if my question sounds silly. I have a T410s and am running ubuntu 11.10. I am going through the very same problem: I have to manually keep run tpfancontrol (by Stanko) multiple times to lower the temperature down,otherwise the fan speed just goes back to 3500rpm even after I put the "automatic control" option on tpfancontrol.
I ran at both ends's shell script and it does basically what tpfancontrol does; it runs and stops. What did you do to get yours working? How does removing tpfancontrol work for you? Isnt that just the same as leaving it there, and not executing it?
Hi,
I am new to this as well so forgive me if my question sounds silly. I have a T410s and am running ubuntu 11.10. I am going through the very same problem: I have to manually keep run tpfancontrol (by Stanko) multiple times to lower the temperature down,otherwise the fan speed just goes back to 3500rpm even after I put the "automatic control" option on tpfancontrol.
I ran at both ends's shell script and it does basically what tpfancontrol does; it runs and stops. What did you do to get yours working? How does removing tpfancontrol work for you? Isnt that just the same as leaving it there, and not executing it?
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