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Yazaki

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Registered: 2017-11-05

Posts: 1

i8kutils doesn't work

Hello,

I have a new Dell laptop and I'm trying to lower it's fan speed. I've downloaded i8kutils (AUR), tcl, tk packages and trying to run:

$ sudo ik8mon

Fan resets and starts throttling back to it's high RPM. Same thing happens if I try to run as a service:

$ sudo systemctl start i8kmon.service

I'm using default config and changing it didn't do anything.

I've used i8kutils package in Ubuntu from Launchpad and it worked like a charm out-of-the-box. I'm not sure if I want to try to disable BIOS fan as stated in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fa … ed_control and if I would I've no idea where to find smm.c. I think something is overriding i8kmon and it could be the BIOS fan.

P.S. I've installed lm-sensors and 4.9.60 kernel.

Last edited by Yazaki (2017-11-05 19:57:59)