chassis fan running at full speed, fancontrol not working Ubuntu 20.04 Amd ASUS MB
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chassis fan running at full speed, fancontrol not working Ubuntu 20.04 Amd ASUS MB
Hello,
I have tried to follow several methods to control my fans, nothing worked.
I have a M4A88T-M motherboard with a Phenom AMD processor and NVIDIA Quadro600 PCIe card.
I installed thermald, lmsensors, fancontrol, and Xsensors and Psensors so I can get a graphical reading of my fan speeds and temps.
sudo pwmconfig
/usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed.
Another attempt:
Code:
sudo service kmod start
Job for systemd-modules-load.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
Code:
cat /etc/modules # Generated by sensors-detect on Thu May 28 02:29:36 2020
# Chip drivers
it87
I also tried
Code:
sudo systemctl status fancontrol
fancontrol.service - fan speed regulator
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fancontrol.service; enabled; vendor pr>
Active: inactive (dead)
Condition: start condition failed at Thu 2020-05-28 02:36:07 EDT; 1h 5min ago
Docs: man:fancontrol(8)
man:pwmconfig(8)
systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in fan speed regulator being skipped.
systemd[1]: /lib/systemd/system/fancontrol.service:11: PIDFile= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/>
According to sensors-detect the 2 sensors that work and could be loaded as modules are
Code:
Driver `it87':
* ISA bus, address 0x290
Chip `ITE IT8712F Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9)
Driver `k10temp' (autoloaded):
* Chip `AMD Family 10h thermal sensors' (confidence: 9)
What should I use in Ubuntu 20.04 to adjust my chassis fan speed? I'm confused on how to approach this properly.
This system has MB configured to work with AMD cpus back in 2011, the NVIDIA (pro)card was added separately but came out around the same time. I am used to working with older computers but I suspect there may have been some damage to this one during a surge, but unconfirmed. I shutdown desktop overnight and this time the fan was far quieter and behaved more normally; speed up during increased activity. I am using for general desktop use and everything else is stable.
I would still like to have some fan control if possible.
(I had tried adjustments in bios as well. I will apply fresh thermal paste to CPU soon, should help reduce noise).
In order to get pwmconfig to work, it was advised to add "acpi_enforce_resources=lax" & yes I did update-grub. It however didn't work anyways.
Thanks for the additional info.
I had a look at the commands you used; I didn't even know lm_sensors comes with pwmconfig.
I never ran it on my old system, and this is a fairly new install, and I never even ran sensors-detect on this one, and everything works as it should.
And if it works ootb on Archlinux I'd assume it works even more ootb on Ubuntu.
Both my desktop and laptop are all-intel systems - is this sort of extra setup necessary for AMD systems?
And your GPU seems to be doing OK with the nvidia driver you are using.
The only mistake I see is this:
Code:
sudo service kmod start
On Ubunut systems, that should be
Code:
sudo systemctl start kmod
Although I'm not sure such a service even exists - again, what made you think that particular command would help, and with what?
Beyond that, you might want to try to run pwmconfig (and possibly also semsors-detect) again and make more conservative choices?
I'll leave things be for now as I have other issues to deal with, and hope that the fans behave as they are now, much more bearable, still not sure what 'fixed' it. I still suspect old hardware and damage to have occured; later I have to make sure that the IDE controller is still working because I can't even get the DVD drives to be recognised in bios!
I did try:
Code:
sudo systemctl start kmod
Job for systemd-modules-load.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
:~$ journalctl -xe
systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules...
-- Subject: A start job for unit systemd-modules-load.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
--
-- A start job for unit systemd-modules-load.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 8340.
sudo[9449]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
kernel: it87: Found IT8712F chip at 0x290, revision 8
kernel: it87: Beeping is supported
kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000295-0x0000000000000296 conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000290-0x00000000000002AF (\_SB.PCI0.SBRG.SIOR.ECRE) >
kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000295-0x0000000000000296 conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000290-0x00000000000002AF (\_SB.PCI0.SBRG.ASOC.SIOE) >
kernel: ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
systemd-modules-load[9452]: Failed to insert module 'it87': Device or resource busy
systemd-modules-load[9452]: Failed to insert module 'it87': Device or resource busy
kernel: it87: Found IT8712F chip at 0x290, revision 8
kernel: it87: Beeping is supported
kernel: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000295-0x0000000000000296 conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000290-0x00000000000002AF (\_SB.PCI0.SBRG.SIOR.ECRE) >
: ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000295-0x0000000000000296 conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000290-0x00000000000002AF (\_SB.PCI0.SBRG.ASOC.SIOE) >
kernel: ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
systemd-modules-load[9452]: Failed to insert module 'it87': Device or resource busy
systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
-- Subject: Unit process exit
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