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So I've followed the fan speed guide on the Arch Wiki and have gotten the fan in my laptop to work perfectly -- except for one thing. For a short time during boot, and a somewhat longer time during shutdown, my fan runs at MAXIMUM speed.
I've noticed that when I run fancontrol from the terminal, and then abort the program with Ctrl+C, it outputs "Verify fans have returned to full speed", so I assume this is where the problem lies. Is there a simple way (config file) to change the program so that it restores the fans to a saner speed on exit?
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I assume the solution lies in modifying the file /usr/sbin/fancontrol, especially in this part:
function restorefans()
{
local status=$1
echo 'Aborting, restoring fans...'
let fcvcount=0
while (( $fcvcount < ${#AFCPWM[@]} )) # go through all pwm outputs
do
pwmo=${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}
pwmdisable $pwmo
let fcvcount=$fcvcount+1
done
echo 'Verify fans have returned to full speed'
rm -f "$PIDFILE"
exit $status
} My scripting skills are not so great, however, so I'm not sure how to modify it. I would prefer it so set a pwm of maybe 100, instead of 255.
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The previous answer is very helpful. While the fancontrol script catches a quit signal, it calls restorefans function. And that function will further call pwmdisable. pwmdisable function is the actual place where fancontrol set fan speed before it exits. In the pwmdisable function, it first tries to return the fan speed control responsibility back to the system which should automatically adjust fan speed if bios supports auto pwm control. If failed, it set the fan to MAX speed.
Understanding this, it would not be too hard to modify the script. On my system, automatic fan control is enabled by setting pmw_enable to 5 (echo 5 > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/pwm2_enable) rather than 0. So I modified lines between 330 to 332 to be
330 # Try pwmN_enable=5
331 echo 5 > $ENABLE 2> /dev/null
332 if [ `cat $ENABLE` -eq 5 ]In the original script 5s are all replaced with 0s.
And if it does not work, you may try replacing $MAX and 190 in the following lines to your preferred pwm
340 echo $MAX > $1
341 if [ `cat $ENABLE` -eq 1 -a `cat $1` -ge 190 ] And at last, do not forget backup before trying.
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