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Dell XPS 15 9570 - How to control the fans?
I found a solution to my own problem.
To see the fans with lm_sensors
Add dell-smm-hwmon to modules:
sudo su
echo "options dell-smm-hwmon restricted=0 force=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/dell-smm-...
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Very high fan speed on Ubuntu 18.04
The typical steps for fancontrol setup include:
Running sensors-detect to ensure you have the correct modules and updates /etc/modules (/etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors on RH) to have the nct6775 entry.
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High CPU usage, even without a real reason
I see Chromium browser which is responsible for high CPU as per screenshot provided of htop command.
That simply means there is something wrong with your Chromium browser.
To check for problems, hit ...
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How to control AMD GPU fan speed
Seems like you need to be able to create a custom fan curve. Try Corectrl, rather simple and has gui.
just image from internet but corectrl gui
Add PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ernstp/mesarc
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Very high fan speed on Ubuntu 18.04
I struggled with fan speed and thermal issues for a long time before I found tlp which has solved all my problems. You can learn more here:
TLP brings you the benefits of advanced power management ...
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Install CoreCtrl (GPU GUI) on Ubuntu 20.04
The website has the instructions right on the page, close to the end of page:
Ubuntu
Add the Ernst ppa-mesarc PPA.
Then run:
sudo apt install corectrl
Focal is supported, so this is literally ...
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i8kctl not working for Dell Inspiron fan control
I found a solution for my Vostro 5481. It might work for you (and others) as well.
Required
git clone https://github.com/TomFreudenberg/dell-bios-fan-control.git
cd dell-bios-fan-control
make
sudo ....
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Very high fan speed on Ubuntu 18.04
I was having problems with Ubuntu 18.04 on my Asus laptop Q551L and high fan speed when coming out of sleep. My laptop had nvidia devices needing drivers including my video card GM108M GeForce 840M.
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High CPU usage, even without a real reason
I had the same thing and tried several things; which I'd found while debugging what the cause was:
Disabled the Accelerated 2D canvas; can be found here chrome://flags/
Disabled most of the GPU ...
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Imac with Ubuntu (Lubuntu 20.04) - Controlling fan speed
I have a 2011 iMac and mbpfan is the simplest solution for fan control.
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Imac with Ubuntu (Lubuntu 20.04) - Controlling fan speed
First and foremost, I do not run Ubuntu, I run MX Linux, but with MX Linux being Debian compliant and Ubuntu have a similar Debian type base, the same tools should work just fine.
Having just swapped ...
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Imac with Ubuntu (Lubuntu 20.04) - Controlling fan speed
I noticed same thing as Mike Pavletich and coded a shell script to write those files easier, It's not the perfect solution but I can manually regulate them checking as well sensors command
https://...
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How do I use fancontrol on HP Elitebook 8560w?
These laptops are known for having noisy fans because they are in the workstation class where performance is more important than noise or comfort. This means that even at the best of times they will ...
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High CPU usage, even without a real reason
I think your main issue appears to be that you are running in software rendering mode. This is utilizing your CPU instead of GPU for rendering. Go to Software & Updates on the Additional Drivers ...
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Cannot configure Fan Speed with pwmconfig
Start out by man fancontrol to get a feel for what variables can be used in /etc/fancontrol. You will need the following when building the config: INTERVAL, FCTEMPS, FCFANS, MINTEMP, MAXTEMP, ...
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How do I tell if my laptop fans can be controlled by Ubuntu
Controlling the fan speed using fancontrol is not possible with many laptops because of the design of the fan control hardware. So how do you tell if it is possible on your laptop? I am going to use ...
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Dell XPS 15 9570 - How to control the fans?
A less intrusive method to get less temperature (and therefore no fans are required) is using powertop.
cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:00.0/power/control # (on?. That is bad)
sudo powertop --...
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Dell XPS 15 9570 - How to control the fans?
My Dell 9570 (Intel i7-8750H) runing on Linux Mint 19.1 and Windows 10.
Bios version : 1.10.1
Kernel : 4.18.0-21
On Mint, after only repasting of CPU/GPU with Phobya NanoGreace Extreme, I obtain 42°...
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How can I control fan speed on Acer Nitro 5?
It's possible that fancontrol will work with your system. It's available in the Universe repository for all currently supported versions of Ubuntu. To install it, you must first enable the Universe ...
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Unable to see fan speed on Ubuntu 20.04 with MSI board
The issue here is kernel 5.13.0 does not support your chip which is why sensors detect says Found unknown chip with ID 0xd592. Sometimes you can get lucky and the module will work even though sensors-...
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My Toshiba Satellite C55-B5319 fans will not turn on; how do I make them work?
A temperature of 102 Fahrenheit is perfectly normal for a laptop HDD. Toshiba HDDs can operate up to 55 Celcius = 131 Fahrenheit.
The fan in a laptop is designed to cool the heatsink on the processor ...
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Fan running at maximum speed on Asus UX32A since last update on Ubuntu 14.04
You can try to install (or check if it is already installed) thermald. It is a daemon that prevent your PC from overheating. To install run the following command:
sudo apt-get install thermald
I ...
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How can I turn my Fan on full speed all the time?
Most modern laptops have fancontrol settings in their BIOS. This is the simplest way of controlling your fan speed and there may be an option to have the fan at full speed all the time.
If not you ...
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Adjusting an Nvidia GPU's Fan Curve
I made my own script for this and its the best I have seen so far. I'm hoping some of you will contribute and improve my code. Mine works just by running it and should be able to support older ...
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Very high fan speed on Ubuntu 18.04
There can be two things at play here and for that there are two things you can do/try.
1. Check BIOS settings.
certain settings can be found/only be found in the BIOS, one of these settings that can ...
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High CPU usage, even without a real reason
For anyone encountering the high CPU usage issue recently (December 2020), mine was resolved by making sure I had more than 2GB of free disk space on the root partition (Ubuntu 16.04).
This solution ...
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How do I use fancontrol on HP Elitebook 8560w?
I also have a Elitebook 8570W with Ubuntu 16.04. To reduce the noise from fans, I follow this steps :
1.Disable the BIOS option : Fan always on
2.Clean heatsink and change the thermal paste (choose ...
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How do I use fancontrol on HP Elitebook 8560w?
If you cannot get fancontrol to work, make sure your kernel is up to date. I had this issue on my laptop, and it immediately began to work after updating the kernel.
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