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Fans are hardware devices used for cooling other devices which generate lots of heat.

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Surges in fan speed on Lenovo ThinkPad

I am using Kubuntu with Ubuntu 14.04 and KDE 4.13.3 on a Lenovo Thinkpad (more specific spec below). Since some time now I am getting extreme surges in fan speed that drop off immediately after. Most ...
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My laptop is seriously overheating

I installed Ubuntu 15.04 alongside Windows 7 on my laptop about an hour ago, and within two minutes of running Ubuntu (both during the Live CD and post-install), my CPU temperatures reach 100°C. In ...
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Noisy fan keeps turning off and on. How can I configure it better (lm-sensors doesn't detect fan)?

sensors-detect detects my system perfectly: # sensors-detect revision 6209 (2014-01-14 22:51:58 +0100) # System: Acer Aspire E1-572 [V2.14] (laptop) # Board: Acer EA50_HW It detects an Intel digital ...
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How to reduce CPU temperature ?

I have Ubuntu 14.04 and an HP Pavilion laptop. When running Windows 7 the CPU is slightly hot but not much. But running Ubuntu however, it is considerably hotter. I installed tlp and my GFX card ...
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Fan does not work on Dell XPS 13 developer edition with 14.04

After updating my Dell XPS 13 developer edition to Ubuntu 14.04 the fan is not working. The i8kutils are installed but i8kmon does not work. It returns * starting Dell fan/cpu-temperature monitor ...
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Which software controls the fan on Dell Sputnik?

As far as I know Project Sputnik from Dell, it is a developer notebook with Ubuntu installed. This notebook has a fan and some kernel module / driver / user land app to handle turning it on and off. ...
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There are no usable PWM outputs

I just installed ubuntu and I'm trying to fix the fan issue because it's alwaysi working , even when I open the laptop, I'm using an asus rog. I was trying to follow this tutorial How to control fan ...
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Modify manually PWM of my fan (fan speed)

I configured fanspeed but it detects only one "temp" captor... In Gnome Sensors applet, I can see the temperature of three captors... The one of my GPU is 75°, 62° for my hard disk and 32° for my ...
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Can I control the fans in a Gigabyte Aero 15? [duplicate]

I wish to know if anybody from here owns too a Gigabyte Aero 15 laptop and if he/she can control the fans. This laptop is from 2017, with a 7th gen. Intel Core i7-7700HQ and an Nvidia GTX 1060 with ...
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Fan runs full speed forever after waking from suspend

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (5th gen., type 20HR) that works wonderfully with Ubuntu 16.04 but for one thing: the fan often (but not always) comes on full after waking the laptop from suspend, ...
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installing i8kutils stops loud fan noise

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 desktop on a Dell 5521 laptop. When I install i8kutils, fan noise stops suddenly without doing any configuration. When I check with i8kfan command, output is -1 0. When I want ...
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MRTG using script to grab data of sensors

I'm using MRTG to grab data from sensors of a ubuntu server 12.04, with this script. #!/bin/bash SENSORS=/usr/bin/sensors UPTIME=$(uptime | awk -F, '{print $3}' ) TEXT="Graphic Card Temperature" ...
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Control device (ASUS fan) from Gnome shortcut

After some search, the only reliable way I found to control the fan in my ASUS laptop was to issue this commands (as root): turn on fans: echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/hwmon/hwmon7/...
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Unable to see fan speed on Ubuntu 20.04 with MSI board

Just a preface, I know there are numerous questions about this, but I do believe that mine is a different case. Every now and then, after restarting my computer (often after updating Nvidia drivers), ...
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My Dell Fan running high after upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04

I have a Dell XPS 15 9500. I have been happily using 18.04 but keep getting told I need to update to 20.04. I've upgraded, but now the fan seems to be running high pretty much all the time, even when ...
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High CPU temp on boot + Fan noise on Ubuntu/Thinkpad T490

I've recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my Thinkpad T490 and i noticed something strage and different on CPU temperatures on Ubuntu compared to Windows. I don't know why, but on boot the fan spins ...
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How to see all my fans in sensors?

I use Ubuntu 18.04.2, I installed lm-sensors and what it gives when I command sensors in the terminal: (base) avy@avy-Moi:~$ sensors asus-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter cpu_fan: 0 RPM acpitz-...
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How to set PWM fan speed manually?

How can I set a speed for a certain PMW-driven fan manually? I tried LM-Sensors but there it seems the speed can be only set automatically.
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Fan not spinning after suspend in new kernels (Asus X453M)

More often than not, when my laptop is resumed after being suspended, the fan will no longer spin, resulting in overheating when a heavy process is running. This happens on Ubuntu 14.04 with 3.13.0 ...
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MacBook Pro Temperature Issues (tlp and cpufreq used)

I recently installed the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on a MacBook Pro, and I have noticed some overheating issues. Specifically, I used indicator-sensors and psensors to monitor the temperature, and the average ...
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Ubuntu Battery not charging or not detected

Here is question/answer just to help the community. I just bought a new ASUS N750J . I had some issues installing kubuntu. Problems were the CPU FAN always running at full speed, battery not charging,...
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MacBook Air MID 2012 Fan Control on Ubuntu 13.10 and higher

On my MacBook Air MID 2012 I use Ubuntu since 12.04. After installing Ubuntu I had to install the "macfanctld" package (incl. configuration) to get the fan control of my MBA working. If not, the fan (...
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Laptop runs too hot, the fan runs silent

I'm currently using Ubuntu 18.10 on a machine with Nvidia OPTIMUS (GeForce 650M on Samsung NP550P5C-S01IN). Currently for Nvidia, I'm using nvidia-driver-390, though current selected GPU is Intel. My ...
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One core goes to 100% usage and activate fan on Ubuntu 18.10,

I recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu 18.10 with this Notebook, and despite is not a serious problem I noticed that often the fan turn on for ~3 sec. then turn off for ~5 sec. and then turn on ...
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AMD Ryzen fan constantly very loud

i assembled a new pc for work and gave the new AMD cpu a chance (Ryzen 5 1600 - NOT 1600X). So far everything works really smooth and fast. BUT the cpu fan is constantly on a very loud level, even if ...
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unable to set cpu scaling frequency

I have Ubuntu 15.04 on a clevo w605sj (Eurocom Electra 2), which gets very loud when the fan is on. Sometimes this is unacceptable, and so I'd actually rather throttle the CPU and take the ...
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Is there some program to control fan speed in Ubuntu 14.04? - Acer Aspire 5740G

I have an Acer Aspire 5740(G) that overheats constantly, even in normal use. After many hours of trying fan control utilities to speed up my fan, such as fancontrol and lm-sensors, and none of them ...
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Does TLP controls laptop FAN?

I've installed TLP on my laptop. And I found when plug out AC jack(Adaptor), the FAN goes off. I want to turn the FAN off also in AC mode, but I can't find some related option in /etc/default/tlp. ...
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How to automatically start my laptop's fans without having to run "sudo modprobe i8k"?

I am running Ubuntu 13.10 on a Dell Inspiron 3521 and I keep getting this error message whenever I try to use i8kctl fan 1 1: Can't open /proc/i8k: No such file or directory I can easily fix it ...
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USB fan controller

I'd like to control the speed of 3 fans: CPU fan (3-pin fan connector; connected to mainboard) 2x chassis fan (3-pin fan connector; connected to power supply via molex adapter) Unfortunately, it ...
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Fans running very fast on MacBook Pro 8.1

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on Macbook Pro 8.1 and one of the first things I noticed was that the fans were starting to spin very fast every few minutes for 10-30 sec and then going back to normal. That ...
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How to reduce the fan noise and how to increase battery life?

I have a brand new Sony Vaio S series laptop.(VPCSA2DGX) It came factory installed with Windows 7 professional Edition 64bit. Runs Intel core i5, 500 GB HDD , 4GB Ram. First I installed ubuntu 11.10 ...
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Compiz consuming lot of cpu when display is off in 12.04 [closed]

I just upgraded to 12.04 this weekend, and since the upgrade, whenever the screen is turned off (after 5 min of inactivity), the fan starts to run like crazy, making a lot of noise. When I get back to ...
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What do I do to slow down fan?

I have an Athlon x2 4600 on an Asus M2N32WS Pro mainboard Bios dated 2006. Since upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10 fan runs constantly. I have run pwmconfig, however, fan still runs at a higher speed than I ...
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Fan Always ON (Laptop HP G62)

Recently, I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my HP G62. But after I installed i noticed that my laptop fan always ON. Kindly guide me on how this fix this issue. I'm new to this new lovely O.S. Thanks!
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Fan runs constantly on an Acer Aspire s3

I have a new Acer Aspire S3 notebook and problems with the fan. After installing Ubuntu 11.10 (but also with the Xubuntu live-disc) the fan is running constantly. Is there any possibility to: Stop ...
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Fan control on Acer Aspire One D255 netbook

I have Ubuntu netbook edition on my Acer Aspire One D255 netbook and I notice that I always hear the fan working at 100% despite the actual temperature. I run the sensors command its only at 13c, ...
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After each startup after a few minute laptop(ubuntu 20.4) get's so slow

For the last 20days, my laptop has become so slow. I use ubuntu 20.4 lts. My pc has a dual boot with windows 10. I switched to ubuntu but when I start ubuntu fan runs at high speed it does not happen ...
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POP desktop : What is this 'gjs' process which taking up so much memory and cpu?

I have installed pop-desktop on my Ubuntu 20.04 and found that the environment is way faster, smoother than my past GNOME Shell. What is odd is that, there is a process named gjs and its taking up ...
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I downloaded "fancontrol" to bring my computer's temperature down, but what do the different "pwmconfig" parameters actually do?

I would like to increase my fan speed and get my computer to run a little cooler, so I downloaded the "fancontrol" package and ran the sensors-detect along with pwmconfig programs. But even after ...
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lm-sensors stops reading temp1, causes overheating

Once in a while, after waking my laptop from sleep (a Lenovo Thinkpad T440 on Ubuntu 18.04) lm-sensors will fail to read temp1 and as a result, thinkfan seems to think the temperature is low and does ...
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Fans always ON and overheating on DELL XPS 15 9570 with NVIDIA GPU enabled

I have Ubuntu 19.04 on my DELL XPS 15 9570, with the 5.0.0-15-generic kernel version. This laptop has a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU and all the time the fans are on around 3200/3700 RPM. If I ...
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XPS 9370 thermal throttling ubuntu 18.04

I got a Dell XPS 9370 since a few days and decided to use it with Ubuntu now. I am on 18.04, freshly installed since some minutes. I am bootstrapping k8s clusters in VirtualBox on it, so thermals bump ...
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ubuntu 18.04 high cpu/fan crazy - basic usage

I've done a fresh install of ubuntu 18.04. My system is the following: lucas@test:~$ inxi -F System: Host: test Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Gnome 3.28.1 Distro: Ubuntu 18.04 ...
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how to control fans on a laptop in Ubuntu 16.04?

I have a portable desktop basically. My laptop is a clevo p7xxtm1 and the software that controls the fans is an exe file that I can only install on Windows. I don't want to use wine to install it ...
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How can lm_sensors support Z370 chipset motherboards?

I've just bought a Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming-CF, using it with an i7-8700k. Issue I have is that I can't get the fan speed and whatnot - just CPU temperatures with ...
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Why my fan RPM drops to 0 cycling?

I have installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 on a Dell E6430 and I am using the command watch sensors I can notice that, despite the temperature (around 70degrees) the fan is going max speed and after 2-3 ...
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fancontrol (pwmconfig) won't detect my fans

My laptop's CPU fan creeps me out and I am trying to lower it but when I am attempting to run sudo pwmconfig and I get /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed The ...
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Unable to get lm-sensors to report my fan speeds for Asus Z97-WS

I've followed through the basic processes to detect my sensors (nct-6791 chip), yet all I get from sensors is as follows: acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +27.8°C (crit = +105....
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Dell fans not working

I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my DELL Inspiron 15R. Since I have installed it, my fan is constantly spinning, even I do absolutely nothing. I found this post and I decided to install i8kutils. ...
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