Almost impossible to set up fans

Wobbo

11/9/22, 10:37 AM

I'm not a techie but I've come a long way. Maybe someone can help me. Maybe there's just an app to change your fans that I haven't found.

I've looked everywhere for help tools, tips or explanations but I can't find the solution.

How do I set up my fans? Many forums are very old and don't work, in my opinion. Whether it concerns specific hardware such as Dell or IBM. I have an ASUS with 3 connection points with 4 pins. I have connected fans with 4 pins. In the BIOS it is already at its lowest. To be clear, I have an ASUS NOT a Dell or IBM.

In sudo pwmconfig test I can clearly hear the fans making less noise. Setup is very difficult. When I have done it and save I get the document /etc/fancontrol.

When I start systemctl status fancontrol.service I get:

systemctl status fancontrol.service
● fancontrol.service - fan speed regulator
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fancontrol.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2021-07-09 11:56:51 CEST; 22s ago
       Docs: man:fancontrol(8)
             man:pwmconfig(8)
    Process: 7742 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/fancontrol --check (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Note: Active: failed

Then I went to see what it says in /lib/systemd/system/fancontrol.service. In it it refers to PIDFile=/run/fancontrol.pid but it doesn't exist.

Now I'm stuck. I don't know what to do now. Does anyone know what I should do?

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Serg

11/9/22, 11:42 AM

Try to run manually failed command and look at it's output: `/usr/sbin/fancontrol --check`

Wobbo

11/19/22, 8:08 AM

There is no `/usr/sbin/fancontrol`. Is there another place I can find it?

Serg

11/19/22, 10:45 AM

Try this answer https://askubuntu.com/a/46135/917609 or maybe just install fancontrol with `sudo apt-get update -y` and `sudo apt-get install -y fancontrol`

Wobbo

11/21/22, 8:56 AM

Thanks! It will take me a while to complete that step list. lol I was looking for this.

Wobbo

11/22/22, 2:44 PM

Unfortunately, this is not the solution. A lot is still about Dell and IBM etc. It seems like only these PCs have fans. lol Is there really no software controller or something?

Serg

11/22/22, 2:46 PM

Sorry, I misunderstood you because of my poor English. I'm deleting this wrong comment.

Wobbo

11/22/22, 3:14 PM

I found tuxedo control. This one is interesting and I'm getting it to work. Unfortunately it only sees my CPU but I can't control anything with it. Maybe someone can help with this? https://github.com/tuxedocomputers/tuxedo-control-center/

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Almost impossible to set up fans

TH: แทบจะตั้งพัดลมไม่ได้เลย

RO: Aproape imposibil de configurat ventilatoare

RU: Почти невозможно настроить вентиляторы

VI: Hầu như không thể thiết lập người hâm mộ

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