Are there more granular laptop fan speed solutions?

JasonMehmel · 2024-07-23 02:07:46

One thing I noticed when I went from Ubuntu to BL on my Asus Zenbook was a difference in the intensity of the cooling fan speeds.

I just installed on a Thinkpad T15 and I've noticed it again.

It seemed that in Ubuntu, the fans would kick in at a low level as load increased, and then go high when the load got even higher. I'm not sure how many levels of speed were happening.

But in BL, the fans seem to come in at a fairly high level automatically. There might be at least two speeds, but I'm not sure.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Are there any related packages that Ubuntu is using but not Debian? (Or at least, not BL / Debian?) Or maybe laptop-specific packages?

This is on Boron, BTW.

Last edited by JasonMehmel (2024-07-23 02:08:17)

hhh · 2024-07-23 02:34:10

I recently yoinked my Debian partition and am only running Ubuntu 24.10 for now, but fan usage on my Ideapad 3 seemed about identical using GNOME on both partitions. Seems to be 2 fan speeds.

Do you have some sort of temperature sensor you can monitor (conky or something?) If your cpu/gpu temps are stable, I personally wouldn't worry about it.

You might want to check out thinkfan, though...

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/thinkfan

https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/th … .1.en.html

https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/th … .5.en.html

#1 2024-07-23 02:07:46

Are there more granular laptop fan speed solutions?

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Re: Are there more granular laptop fan speed solutions?

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