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sticsk
Asked: 2017-05-09 12:13:26 +0800 CST

fancontrol (pwmconfig) won't detect my fans

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My laptop's CPU fan creeps me out and I am trying to lower it but when I am attempting to run sudo pwmconfig and I get /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed

The laptop is an HP G250 G5, with Intel i3 CPU, and AMD R5 M430, but the driver doesn't exist for Ubuntu 16.04

16.04

1 Answers

  1. Make sure that you're running BIOS F.23 Rev.A from Dec 23, 2016. If you need to update, go to https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-250-g5-notebook-pc/10180321.

    In terminal...

    dpkg -l intel-microcode | grep ii

    If it returns no result, then...

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install intel-microcode
reboot

    In terminal...

    dpkg -l thermald | grep ii

    If it returns no result, then...

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install thermald
reboot

    You'll want to read up a little on thermald by typing man thermald and man thermal-conf.xml, in terminal. After stopping the currently running thermald process, you can run thermald manually in --no-daemon mode to watch if it's doing the right thing, or as a basis for writing your own custom config file.

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