Closed limmor1 closed 3 years ago
This sounds a lot like this issue: https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan/issues/114#issuecomment-757535018
That would mean the problem lies with either the thinkpad_acpi
kernel module or with the laptop's embedded controller firmware. A possible workaround might be to have thinkfan disable the watchdog. Currently that's not allowed because it's potentially dangerous if thinkfan or your entire userspace freezes.
Thanks! This made me aware that apt repository has a very old version of thinkfan. After building new version I no longer experience the issue.
Hi! Thinkfan seems to be a great program, but I am having one issue - even when I set the fan to work at a single speed for all temperatures I am getting periodic drops in RPM. The fan is running at the specified level, but then periodically switches to "auto" and the RPMs drop for a short moment and then resume again.
Things I tried:
thinkfan -s 5
to different periodicity. The periodicity depends on the time, e.g. if I set "1", the RPMs drop more often. If I set "15" the drops are less frequent./proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
to verify that my temperature sensor does not register any drops or spikes (I polled with bash loop, so there there is a limit to how frequently I can poll, but I did not see any sudden changes in temperature)/proc/acpi/ibm/fan
to verify that the fan reports the same level all the time, except during the drop it changes to "auto".My setup:
/etc/thinkfan.conf:
/etc/default/thinkfan:
DAEMON_ARGS="-q -b 5.0 -s 5"