{"id":2996,"date":"2020-02-19T19:01:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T01:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2020-02-19T19:01:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T01:01:23","slug":"alienware-fan-control-in-linux-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/alienware-fan-control-in-linux-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Alienware fan control in Linux notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Helpful links<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.archlinux.org\/index.php\/Fan_Speed_Control#Dell_laptops\">https:\/\/wiki.archlinux.org\/index.php\/Fan_Speed_Control#Dell_laptops<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/bbs.archlinux.org\/viewtopic.php?id=248106\">https:\/\/bbs.archlinux.org\/viewtopic.php?id=248106<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Dell\/comments\/9pdgid\/configuring_the_xps_to_play_nice_with_linux\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Dell\/comments\/9pdgid\/configuring_the_xps_to_play_nice_with_linux<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use the following commands to &#8220;initilize&#8221; the fans so the fancontrol can read them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code> sudo modprobe dell-smm-hwmon ignore_dmi=1<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sudo sensors-detect<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>After that is done you should be able to setup a fancontrol config with <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sudo pwmconfig<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>After it is set up you can launch fancontrol to control the fans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sudo fancontrol<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p> If you want to tweak the setting, modify the fancontrol config under<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\/etc\/fancontrol<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>or run pwmconfig again and replace config.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds like you should be able to add the following to &#8220;etc\/modprobe.d\/dell.conf&#8221; to get it to run on boot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <code>options dell-smm-hwmon ignore_dmi=1<\/code> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helpful links https:\/\/wiki.archlinux.org\/index.php\/Fan_Speed_Control#Dell_laptops https:\/\/bbs.archlinux.org\/viewtopic.php?id=248106https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Dell\/comments\/9pdgid\/configuring_the_xps_to_play_nice_with_linux You can use the following commands to &#8220;initilize&#8221; the fans so the fancontrol can read them. sudo modprobe dell-smm-hwmon ignore_dmi=1 sudo sensors-detect After that is done you should be able to setup a fancontrol config with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/alienware-fan-control-in-linux-notes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[665,3],"tags":[309,320,915,913,914,7,917,918,916],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dell","category-linux","tag-alienware","tag-dell","tag-dell-smm-hwmon","tag-fan","tag-fancontrol","tag-linux-2","tag-lm-sensors","tag-pwmconfig","tag-sensors-detect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}