Fan control on linux ?

[kinooyume]

Hi there ! I also own a aero 15x (v7) and I'm running on arch linux. Did you manage to have fan control ? I tried some solution from Arch Wiki, but nothing works. Event when I try sensors cmdline, I don't get any outputs. Do you have any clue/solution about it ? Thank's !

[Soulthym]

I did manage to have fan "control" when I was using Arch... by booting to windows, setting the fan curve that I'd like, and then boot back to Arch. Not sure it would help in your case but that did the trick for me

[kinooyume]

Unfortunetly, it doesn't work for me. I just try to set the fan speed at 80% on Windows/smartManager, reboot to arch linux and it doesn't seems to do anything.. But works well back on windows. Do you have any differencies from the command sensors ? Mine is:

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0:  +53.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0:        +52.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1:        +51.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 2:        +51.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 3:        +51.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +27.8°C  (crit = +119.0°C)
temp2:        +29.8°C  (crit = +119.0°C)

iwlwifi-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +37.0°C  

pch_skylake-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +50.0°C  

[Soulthym]

Unfortunately I cannot try it for now, as I recently needed to do a clean install of ubuntu and it doesn't boot for now for some reason, I'll try to fix it soon and tell you my results

[kinooyume]

I don't know about your issue, but I had some problem booting in graphic mode before installing bumblebee, maybe you shoud try to add no_acpi="!Windows 2015" or acpi_osi="!Windows 2015" to the kernel boot before installing the famous bumblebee, it fix mine. Hope that can help.

[Soulthym]

I had to do it before installing bumblebee, but I don't need it apparently since the last BIOS update? It doesn't change much. I am currently installing Ubuntu since I got tired of debugging the graphics drivers from the command line. I found this repo that basically tells me how to do and what not to. So I'm sticking to Ubuntu until I find the courage of going through installing and debugging Arch and bumblebee for Cuda 😅. (I am fairly new to Linux so some things just don't seem obvious to me as they should) Hope you find a solution for the fan control :)

[kinooyume]

So, I managed to have fan control with nbfc, but only when I boot with acpi=off, but touchpad doesn't work, no battery info and can poweroff/reboot (and maybe even more). When you'll have a working ubuntu with fan control, can you tell me your kernel options ? Thank's in advance !

[Soulthym]

Sure will, not sure I'll need fan control tho since the windows trick seemed to work. I'll keep you updated on the matter

[rafaeldelboni]

@kiuKisas did you managed to control the fan speed in your Arch, I'm having this problem as well. I use as kernel parameter acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009" for dealing with the Graphic mode.

[herin049]

@Soulthym

Sure will, not sure I'll need fan control tho since the windows trick seemed to work. I'll keep you updated on the matter

Have you found a solution to the issue yet? I am currently have a similar issue where I cannot figure out how to control the fan speeds on Ubuntu with my Aero 15X. If you could let me know that would be awesome!

[Soulthym]

@herin049 I haven't found a solution yet sadly. However the default profile Arch gives seems to be good enough for my workload. Also there probably a possibly to change the value of the variable controlling it in the kernel. I just can't test it since I don't and won't have the machine with me for a couple months.

[kinooyume]

@kiuKisas did you managed to control the fan speed in your Arch, I'm having this problem as well. I use as kernel parameter acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009" for dealing with the Graphic mode.

Nope, since the windows trick finally work on my machine, I didn't try anything else

[rmahnovetsky]

+1 to the windows trick. I was looking for ages on how to do this but for a linux solution.. BTW I have the gigabyte aero v9 model. The fans are much quieter now for me :)