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dominiksalvet / asus-fan-control

Fan control for ASUS devices running Linux
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Add support for Asus ROG G53SW #54

Closed mohamadali-halwani closed 3 years ago

mohamadali-halwani commented 4 years ago

Greetings everyone, I would like to thank you for this wonderful opportunity and wonderful work, I'd love it if the fans in my notebook work as they should be, I've been dealing with this issue since i migrated from windows, and now with summer heat i get critical temperature shutdowns whenever i put extra load on my laptop. Generally an Asus G53SW has 2 fans on the back, one for the CPU and the other is for the GPU normally, the GPU fan can run to max, but I failed to run the CPU fan (roughly speaking) any higher than the speed of 1 (by the measures of your asus-fan-control) so I hope we can work together through this to make G53SW supported thanks again, here's the requested info :

Environment

OS: Arch Linux x86_64 
Host: G53SW 1.0 
Kernel: 5.5.7-arch1-1 
Shell: zsh 5.8 
CPU: Intel i7-2630QM (8) @ 2.900GHz 
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 
Memory: 1357MiB / 7938MiB 
asus-fan-control version :  3.8.0-1
asus-fan-dkms-git version : v0.9.1.r89.g6d5f558-1
asus-wmi-sensors-dkms-git version :  55.320a68e-1

Basic configuration

Advanced configuration

Additional context afc-scout output : 

------ base address 1335 ------ 
[1334] = 0 
[1335] = 0 <- possible start 
[1336] = 0 
[1337] = 0 
[1338] = 0 
[1339] = 0 
[1340] = 0 
[1341] = 0 
[1342] = 0 <- possible end 
[1343] = 0 
------ base address 1431 ------ 
[1430] = 0 
[1431] = 0 <- possible start 
[1432] = 0 
[1433] = 0 
[1434] = 0 
[1435] = 0 
[1436] = 0 
[1437] = 0 
[1438] = 0 <- possible end 
[1439] = 0
dominiksalvet commented 4 years ago

Hello @mohamadali-halwani! Sorry but I do not have time right now, will get to it later. Feel free to take a look at these issues in the meantime as they may be helpful. Should I forget about this issue, please remind me later.

mohamadali-halwani commented 4 years ago

Hello @mohamadali-halwani! Sorry but I do not have time right now, will get to it later. Feel free to take a look at these issues in the meantime as they may be helpful. Should I forget about this issue, please remind me later.

@dominiksalvet No problem at all, just tell me when is the best time for you so i can schedule it and work on it with you. Also if you think that I can be of a help in anyways possible (in adding support to my laptop) I would be glad to help. please accept my deepest thanks, have a nice day.

dominiksalvet commented 4 years ago

After the 20th, it is fine for me.

mohamadali-halwani commented 4 years ago

After the 20th, it is fine for me.

Hi @dominiksalvet this is just a reminder, that if you're free nowadays, let's work on this 💚

dominiksalvet commented 4 years ago

So yeah, I am finally here! :sweat_smile:

Unfortunately, it doesn't look good to be honest. See #49. I have the same questions...

  1. Once you set values with set-temps, does get-temps report them?
  2. Have you tried different versions of acpi_call?
  3. Do other fan control solutions work (at least partially)?
mohamadali-halwani commented 4 years ago 
1. Once you set values with `set-temps`, does `get-temps` report them?

Unfortunately no, they still persist on being zeros

2. Have you tried different versions of acpi_call?

I'm currently running these versions of acpi packages: acpi 1.7-2 acpi_call 1.1.0-293 and didn't try any other versions, is it possible that my notebook is not supported by the acpi_call package ? How can we test that ?

3. Do other fan control solutions work (at least partially)?

Nothing works so far, pwmconfig only controls the gpu fan and cannot reach the cpu's fan, which results in the same result : "Critical temperature shutdown"s on load

dominiksalvet commented 4 years ago

That's not good. Unfortunately, at this point I am not able to anything... :disappointed: Sorry for letting you wait for this trivial answer but I was really busy.

is it possible that my notebook is not supported by the acpi_call package ? How can we test that ?

I think it is possible but not probable -- some old devices may suffer from that I would say. I am talking about ACPI as a whole. I do not expect that there are some limitation implied by acpi_call... Nevertheless, devices have different ACPI address space layout and functionality than others. So this may be the problem...

Initially, asus-fan-control was developed for my own personal needs and later was discovered that it implicitly supports other devices as well. The asus-fan-control's core itself is still the same.

I am really sorry that I cannot help you. Your desire to cooperate, which is not something all issue creators have, also amplifies it. Maybe we could cross our paths again in different projects! :rocket:

dominiksalvet commented 4 years ago

BTW, I have just realized a simple thing. It may sound stupid but have you tried cleaning your laptop? See #32, whose author originally came with it and it helped him very much. He is also the creator of asus-fan-control wiki.

dominiksalvet commented 4 years ago

@mohamadali-halwani Please let us know whether it helps.

mohamadali-halwani commented 4 years ago

BTW, I have just realized a simple thing. It may sound stupid but have you tried cleaning your laptop? See #32, whose author originally came with it and it helped him very much. He is also the creator of asus-fan-control wiki.

unfortunately I cleaned my laptop 2 months ago, the base temperature went down from 50 to 40, but the inability to control the fan speed is still the same before and after cleaning, I can't do anything that is demanding like compiling and even opening more than one browser. I'm still gonna try, but if I couldn't figure a solution, I may go back to windows or see if there's a descent distro that doesn't have such substantial core issues

mohamadali-halwani commented 4 years ago

as a last resort, I'm going to focus on getting the asus kernel module to work Fan Speed Control - arch wiki

dominiksalvet commented 4 years ago

Yeah... certainly let us know if you find something that actually works for you. :smile:

mohamadali-halwani commented 4 years ago

as a last resort, I'm going to focus on getting the asus kernel module to work Fan Speed Control - arch wiki

Tried the asus kernel module, doesn't work. I also tried nbfc, doesn't work either. turns out that the problem is that my EC chip is not being detected by lm-sensors and any package that depends on it, can't find it with dmesg either, so probably ... we'll need someone to add a support for this chip to the kernel. my EC chip is ITE IT8572E I hope I can get through this...

Update: I tried Using nbfc from AUR, and I was able to control my fans using the config file of the similar model G53SX. I think some kernel update fixed the problem. Everything is working fine. Thanks again.