Fan control on Thinkpad stopped working - is it just mine?

vi3dr0 · 2010-02-03 02:54:32

Hi everyone.

I used to use tp-fancontrol, which stopped working for no reason:

[root@t61p ~]\$ tp-fancontrol
10041: old priority 0, new priority -10
> Activating watchdog with delay 9 sec
> Starting dynamic fan control
> Shutting down, switching to automatic fan control < this is the part where it starts normally instead of shutting down

I also just tried tpfand and thinkfan - none of them is working correctly. Both seem to start, but none is doing it actually (just like tp-fancontrol).

Funny thing I'm still able to control fan manually, echo'ing specific level value to /proc/acpi/ibm/fan - so module is working right.

Looking for help, cheers

Last edited by vi3dr0 (2010-02-03 02:55:41)

ccc1 · 2010-02-05 23:03:50

i'm using thinkfan on my x200 and it's running fine here. are there any errors, if you start it in none daemonized mode, i.e. "thinkfan -n"?

ccc1

Last edited by ccc1 (2010-02-05 23:07:14)

gst · 2010-02-06 15:35:58

vi3dr0 wrote:

I used to use tp-fancontrol, which stopped working for no reason:

I have exactly the same issue on a X61s. Did you already find a solution for this problem?

gst · 2010-02-06 15:46:09

Update: I just tried out thinkfan (I had only used tp_fancontrol.sh so far) and it seems to work fine.

vi3dr0 · 2010-02-06 17:46:32

Thinkfan is working correctly, I had wrong .conf file eariler.

However I'm curious why tp-fancontrol stopped working.

Gary13579 · 2010-02-08 07:08:57

I was having the same problem. Picked my notebook up tonight and noticed it running "warm", which I haven't noticed in months, since I installed tp-fancontrol. I believe it was caused by an upgrade the other day, either the newest kernel or some ibm tools.

The PKGBUILD for thinkfan seems incomplete. Specifically, it doesn't copy the default config file to /etc/thinkfan.conf. So I was having trouble setting it up, especially considering there's no way to view the README without specifically opening the .tar.gz and reading it. Someone should fix that to copy the default conf over?

Anyway, thinkfan is working fine now here. Notebook is down to safe temp levels again.

Phlogiston · 2010-02-27 16:00:51

vi3dr0 wrote:

Thinkfan is working correctly, I had wrong .conf file eariler.
However I'm curious why tp-fancontrol stopped working.

Yes me as well. Did nobody find out whats wrong?

If I use thinkfan, do I have to specify the fan in the config If I want to use the ibm way with fan levels?

toad · 2010-03-03 22:49:03

Could you post a valid conf file?

vi3dr0 · 2010-03-03 22:57:16

toad wrote:

Could you post a valid conf file?

you mean thinkfan.conf?

here you go:

[kuba@t61p ~]\$ cat /etc/thinkfan.conf 
######################################################################
# thinkfan 0.6.5 example config file
# ================================
#
# ATTENTION: There is only very basic sanity checking on the configuration.
# That means you can set your temperature limits as insane as you like. You
# can easily break your hardware with this, so be careful.
#
######################################################################
#
# 1) IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads (thinkpad_acpi, /proc/acpi/ibm)
# =======================================================
# All you need to do is set the temperature limits or stick with these
# defaults. So this config should work unmodified on any Thinkpad.
#
# It's also possible to specify sysfs temperature inputs, but you can't use
# /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal along with them.
# You could also explicitly specify "fan /proc/acpi/ibm/fan", but it's the
# default anyway.
#
#  Syntax:
#  (LEVEL, LOW, HIGH)
#  LEVEL is the fan level to use (0-7 with thinkpad_acpi)
#  LOW is the temperature at which to step down to the previous level
#  HIGH is the temperature at which to step up to the next level
#  All numbers are integers.
#
(0,    0,    55)
(1,    48,    60)
(2,    50,    61)
(3,    52,    63)
(4,    56,    65)
(5,    59,    66)
(7,    63,    32767)

rato67 · 2010-03-13 16:21:01

Yes!! It looks like thinkfan just works fine on a T410 too.
I tried tpfand but fan was still running at ~3600.

Last edited by rato67 (2010-03-13 17:16:31)

toad · 2010-03-13 16:25:13

vi3dr0 wrote:

toad wrote:
Could you post a valid conf file?
you mean thinkfan.conf?

Yes, thanks!

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#1 2010-02-03 02:54:32

Fan control on Thinkpad stopped working - is it just mine?

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