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sailerboy

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Registered: 2012-07-07

Posts: 1

Fan Issues with DV6-7000 series (probably with DV7-7000 series too)

So I've installed Arch on my brand new laptop, and I'm unable to change the fan speed. The fan does run, but on the lowest possible setting, which means the laptop gets very hot.

I've followed the wiki here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fan_Speed_Control, but was unable to get anything out of it.

sensors always returns the following

$ sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Physical id 0:  +56.0 C  (high = +87.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 0:         +53.0 C  (high = +87.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 1:         +53.0 C  (high = +87.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 2:         +56.0 C  (high = +87.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)
Core 3:         +55.0 C  (high = +87.0 C, crit = +105.0 C)

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +53.0 C  (crit = +120.0 C)
temp2:        +30.0 C  (crit = +120.0 C)

No RPM. I've tried sensors-detect, I've tried editing /etc/sensors.d/sensors.conf (which I am unable to find my chipset, apparently lm75)

Fan control is semipossible with HP's coolsense tool on windows, but there's no way AFAIK to control the fans manually. Is it impossible on Linux?

Here is my lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev c4)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fd1 (rev a1)
08:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
0a:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235 (rev 24)
0b:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 07)