ThinkPad Fan Control error
Please check this link for detailed information on how to control thinkpad fan speed.There are some automated scripts which can help you to control the speed.
Due to slow fan speed your thinkpad might get overheated. This is a bug. I found a very useful shell script to control the fan speed.
Hope this helps you.
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Sreejith Pm
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Sreejith Pm over 1 year
I was able to install
tpfand
andtpfan-admin
by following the instructions posted here. However, I'm unable to finish all the instructions.After installing ThinkPad Fan Control I referred to the instructions again and did this:
Now in the terminal again: Code:
sudo gedit /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/tpfand/settings.py
A text file (gedit) opens up but the file is blank so I can't continue to the next step which is:
Find the lines 170-174 and replace:
Code: self.product_id = None self.product_name = None self.product_pretty_vendor = None self.product_pretty_name = None self.product_pretty_id = None
In addition, when I click on ThinkPad Fan Control this message appears despite being able to install tpfand:
Also, when I try
sudo thinkfan
I get this message:WARNING: Using default temperature inputs in /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal. WARNING: You have not provided any correction values for any sensor, and your fan will only start at 55 °C. This can be dangerous for your hard drive. Config as read from /etc/thinkfan.conf: Fan level Low High 0 0 55 1 48 60 2 50 61 3 52 63 4 56 65 5 59 66 7 63 32767 Daemon PID: 3367 juno@Oogushi:~$
I found this post on how to control ThinkPad fan speed for T430, but I got confused on steps 6 and 7 so I aborted my experiment to do it.
Is there a way to solve this? I hope someone can help me.
I'm using ThinkPad R61i 12.04 64-bit, Intel T5870 4GB RAM, 160 GB HDD.
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Sreejith Pm over 11 yearsThank you for this, however I'm confused on how to follow the steps from the article since I'm not that knowledgeable in Ubuntu.
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devav2 over 11 yearsCheck this blog for the steps.
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Sreejith Pm over 11 yearsThank you. Can I ask for clarification though? I've created /etc/modprobe.d/thinkpad-acpi.conf and added
options thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1
to a blank sheet of gedit file, saved it and closed the window. I'm not sure though what Then reload the module means. Should I open the .conf file again or /proc/acpi/ibm/fan and /proc/acpi/ibm/fan? I don't know what I should do with the code># modprobe -r thinkpad-acpi ># modprobe thinkpad-acpi Change the value of level ># echo level 7 > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
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devav2 over 11 yearsOnce you set the fan_control to 1. You need to reload thinkpad-acpi module. So run
modprobe -r thinkpad-acpi
modprobe thinkpad-acpi
commands. After reloading set the fan speed to level 7 usingecho level 7 > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
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devav2 over 11 yearsYou should run that command with root login.
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Sreejith Pm over 11 years