On Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 12:57 Chris Murphy, <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 9:39 AM Fulko Hew <fulko....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > It's been a bad week for me. > > First my disk drive died, and now I've replaced it > > and installed F33 (up from F26) > > > > After running it for a while it started running flaky, > > I hadn't installed gkrellm yet. > > When I did, I noticed that it was reporting a fan speed of 0 RPM. > > True, it wasn't spinning. Maybe it was overheating that that's why it > was getting flaky. > > > > [I ran the Dell BIOS hardware test routines, and they spun up the > > fan and reported no errors.] > > > > So I know the fan works, and presumably thats why the hw test > > spun it up and spun it down again. > > What I'd like to do is to manually control the fan and look at it's > > sensor directly (like the Dell hw test does), but I don't know how. > > > > Laptop is a Dell Inspiron 5567. > > I'm not sure where to go next. > > Thanks > > > > Here's a snippet from running 'sensors': > > > > $ sensors > > dell_smm-virtual-0 > > Adapter: Virtual device > > Processor Fan: 0 RPM > > CPU: +36.0°C > > Ambient: +34.0°C > > SODIMM: +34.0°C > > GPU: +30.0°C > > ... > > Quite a lot of thermal management is split up into different areas: > CPU itself, ACPI, logic board firmware, kernel, and user space. > > I suggest making sure the logic board firmware is up to date as a first > step. > > sensors isn't a default package. New in Fedora 33, thermald is > installed and enabled by default. I'd give that a chance to work (or > fail) on it's own without anything else competing. It's expected that > thermald improves thermal management, but at least to not do worse > than not using it. If the thermal behavior isn't correct with thermald > enabled in a default configuration, then the next test is to disable > thermald and see if the same behavior still happens. If that fixes the > problem, I suggest a thermald bug report. If it doesn't fix the > problem, then we need to look at a possible kernel regression. > > There are some user space tools that can directly manipulate fans if > none of the above works out of the box, but I'd consider that a > fallback > I'm not at the machine at the moment, but can you name some of those user space tools ?
_______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
