I found dmidecode, biosdecode and the smbios-utils suite. Those reported that the hardware supports ACPI and that SMBIOS is present, but told me nothing about power/thermal settings.
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After that futile foray, I reassessed my course.The lm-sensors documentation notes in a couple places that it won't work on most laptops because they lack PWM controllers, and "you have to use acpi instead." I'll simply accept that and conclude that I should look elsewhere for a more general laptop solution.
i8kutils is really only targeted at Dell laptops, and it was written because they lack not only PWM controllers but also support for ACPI fan control. It uses SMM (System Management Mode) as its alternative method of fan control.
What's behind Door #3? ACPI fan control. That's what I'm looking into now.Although it seems like clear that there will not be be a single-tool solution. Perhaps i8kutils for Dell laptops and some ACPI solution for just about everything else.
A first sad observation on the ACPI solution: This laptop has no /proc/acpi/fan directory.
So my next step will be a close look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingACPI
On 5/30/2014 9:12 PM, John Hupp wrote:
I correct myself: fancontrol does have to be installed separately. It includes pwmconfig.When I ran sudo pwmconfig, it reported "There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed."This despite the fact that sensors-detect *did* find a sensor that it could use and configured the coretemp module to load in support of that.I don't have a conclusion yet, but clearly I would have hoped for pwmconfig to find something that fancontrol could govern.On 5/30/2014 8:20 PM, John Hupp wrote:You say that you installed lm-sensors (and fancontrol, although I think fancontrol is simply part of the lm-sensors package) and detail some things about lsmod and the desired fan control settings.But when you ran sensors-detect, what did it detect, and what if any modules did it proposed to install?I say this because the README warns regarding laptops: HARDWARE SUPPORT ----------------To find out what hardware you have, just run 'sensors-detect' as root.Most modern mainboards incorporate some form of hardware monitoring chips. These chips read things like chip temperatures, fan rotation speeds and voltage levels. There are quite a few different chips which can be used bymainboard builders for approximately the same results. Laptops, on the other hand, rarely expose any hardware monitoring chip. They often have some BIOS and/or ACPI magic to get the CPUtemperature value, but that's about it. For such laptops, the lm-sensors package is of no use (sensors-detect will not find anything), and you haveto use acpi instead.This package doesn't contain chip-specific knowledge. It will support all the hardware monitoring chips your kernel has drivers for. In other words, if you find out that you have unsupported hardware (e.g. sensors-detecttold you so) then it means that you need a more recent kernel, or you even need to wait for a new kernel driver to be written. Updating the lm-sensors package itself will not help. On 5/29/2014 4:34 AM, Morten Bjerremann Nielsen wrote:Thank you, for the answer Israel. I will try to give you the info, in this reply:) My CPU is a 64bit (Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3337U CPU @ 1.80GHz). The output of the lshw is attached as a text file, with this reply. I haven't had this running on any previous version, but i'm currently running Linux V5-572G 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux. It's my first time running Lubuntu on this computer. Hope you can help.-- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards Morten Bjerremann Nielsen On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 20:47 -0500, Israel wrote:>Hi, it would help to know more about your processor... it looks like you >have intel, so is it 32bit or 64? >a more exact model name would also be helpful, to others who know more >about this... >The command lshw (or rather 'sudo lshw') will list out your hardware. >please run it as sudo, so a more complete output it generated. >you can output it into a file by running something like: >sudo lshw > lshw.txt > >Thanks! Also, it is usually very useful to know the exact Kernel and >version of the OS you are using >uname -a will show all the info about the kernel version >and I am guessing you might be using 14.04... > >Also... have you had this working in a previous version, or is this the >first time you have used Lubuntu on this computer? > >On 05/27/2014 12:42 PM, Morten Bjerremann Nielsen wrote:> >Hi everyone. > > > >I'm trying to get the "acerhdf.conf" to work on my Acer Aspire V5-572G. > > > >I've installed the "lm-sensors" and "fancontrol" as well, but nothing > >works. > > > >My wish, is for the fans to constantly run a little, because i game a > >lot and wan't my computer to run cool. > > > >This is the settings I wish to use: > >"options acerhdf kernelmode = 1 fanon = 45000 fanoff = 40000" > > > >And this is the output of "lsmod": > >Module Size Used by > >ctr 13049 3 > >ccm 17773 3 > >bbswitch 13943 0 > >dm_crypt 23177 0 > >acer_wmi 32522 0 > >sparse_keymap 13948 1 acer_wmi > >rfcomm 69160 8 > >intel_rapl 18773 0 > >bnep 19624 2 > >x86_pkg_temp_thermal 14205 0 > >intel_powerclamp 14705 0 > >kvm_intel 143060 0 > >kvm 451511 1 kvm_intel > >crct10dif_pclmul 14289 0 > >crc32_pclmul 13113 0 > >ghash_clmulni_intel 13259 0 > >snd_hda_codec_hdmi 46207 1 > >snd_hda_codec_realtek 61438 1 > >aesni_intel 55624 379 > >aes_x86_64 17131 1 aesni_intel > >lrw 13286 1 aesni_intel > >gf128mul 14951 1 lrw > >glue_helper 13990 1 aesni_intel > >ablk_helper 13597 1 aesni_intel > >cryptd 20359 189 > >ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel,ablk_helper > >snd_hda_intel 52355 1 > >snd_hda_codec 192906 3 > >snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel > >uvcvideo 80885 0 > >snd_hwdep 13602 1 snd_hda_codec > >videobuf2_vmalloc 13216 1 uvcvideo > >binfmt_misc 17468 1 > >joydev 17381 0 > >videobuf2_memops 13362 1 videobuf2_vmalloc > >snd_pcm 102099 3 > >snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel > >serio_raw 13462 0 > >videobuf2_core 40664 1 uvcvideo > >snd_page_alloc 18710 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel > >videodev 134688 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core > >snd_seq_midi 13324 0 > >snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi > >arc4 12608 2 > >snd_rawmidi 30144 1 snd_seq_midi > >ath3k 13318 0 > >ath9k 164164 0 > >btusb 32412 0 > >ath9k_common 13551 1 ath9k > >ath9k_hw 453856 2 ath9k_common,ath9k > >lpc_ich 21080 0 > >ath 28698 3 ath9k_common,ath9k,ath9k_hw > >bluetooth 395423 23 bnep,ath3k,btusb,rfcomm > >mac80211 626489 1 ath9k > >snd_seq 61560 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi > >rtsx_pci_ms 18151 0 > >snd_seq_device 14497 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi > >cfg80211 484040 3 ath,ath9k,mac80211 > >snd_timer 29482 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq > >memstick 16966 1 rtsx_pci_ms > >snd 69238 13 > >snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi > >soundcore 12680 1 snd > >mei_me 18627 0 > >mei 82274 1 mei_me > >nvidia 10675249 27 > >parport_pc 32701 0 > >wmi 19177 1 acer_wmi > >ppdev 17671 0 > >mac_hid 13205 0 > >coretemp 13435 0 > >lp 17759 0 > >parport 42348 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc > >hid_generic 12548 0 > >usbhid 52616 0 > >hid 106148 2 hid_generic,usbhid > >rtsx_pci_sdmmc 23274 0 > >i915 783485 2 > >psmouse 102222 0 > >i2c_algo_bit 13413 1 i915 > >drm_kms_helper 52758 1 i915 > >ahci 25819 1 > >libahci 32168 1 ahci > >drm 302817 5 i915,drm_kms_helper,nvidia > >r8169 67581 0 > >rtsx_pci 45956 2 rtsx_pci_ms,rtsx_pci_sdmmc > >mii 13934 1 r8169 > >video 19476 2 i915,acer_wmi > > > > > >Hope one of you out there has a solution to my problem. > >
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