asus-fan-control VS fan2go

First, no way to ajust fan curve in the BIOS. We already tried Asus Fan Control, nbfc-linux and both didn't worked.

Hi there! I recently switched over from windows 11 to kde neon (windows wasnt cutting it for my purposes), and I noticed that I have no way to control my asus vivobook pro 14 oled (m3401) fan controls. I did fix up the issues with battery capacity controls with tools like TLP, but I have not been able to control the fan speed (i wanna make it go fast cuz im not exactly comfortable at 99C during large compiles (im a student, and i kinda need to run compiles on the move)). On windows I was just able to use the MyAsus app and use the performance profile for my fans but I can't do that here because of no MyAsus. I found this wonderful tool called asus-fan-control, sadly it does not support AMD CPUs (I opened a ticket, which if you wanna check out, https://github.com/dominiksalvet/asus-fan-control/issues/120 is the link). What would be a way I can get around this issue? i don't wanna have to repaste this laptop anytime soon (maybe at least run it for 2 years before i end up repasting it). I did not run into such high temps on windows (probably because MyAsus took care of it), but I can't (and don't want to) switch back to windows because I am more familiar to linux than I am to windows (not to mention, it is more convenient for my projects).

You could try contributing to asus-fan-control.

Also surprised you didn't find asus-fan-control (https://github.com/dominiksalvet/asus-fan-control) considering I found it in a two second search and it says it supports the FX505.

Check out https://github.com/dominiksalvet/asus-fan-control and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fan_speed_control#ASUS_laptops for fan management utils. As stated in another comment, TLP can set battery saving thresholds.

So i went to https://github.com/dominiksalvet/asus-fan-control#install to install a fan control app but one of the dependencies is a kernel module any idea how to install it or an alternative to this app that works on fedora

I personally use fan2go, set it up once and forget about it. It has quite the customization, can also assign a header to a temperature sensor (my intake bottom fans are assigned to GPU, the rest to CPU). Take a look here: https://github.com/markusressel/fan2go

How silent are you talking? Silent under load is hard, but quiet under load and silent on idle is possible without a passively cooled build. A good cooler for the processor + slow running case fans + a silent psu (like BitFenix Formula, Corsair RM, ...) + a noise isolating case against coil whine would be the be the foundation for that. I use an old Corsair H90 to cool my i5-5675C, AIO is on the front, my case has one good case fan at the back. Note that the H90 is only quiet when pump speed gets also reduced. With that setup, the noise under load is completely defined by the gpu (a soon to be exchanged RX 570) and the noise of the system on idle vanishes with the ambient noise.

However, the setup I describe above was loud until I got around to control the fan speeds properly. Turned out the MSI BIOS fanspeed control did not work properly. On top of high minimal speed settings (like 50% for the case fan) it ignored my settings and ran the fans higher than I wanted. That made the system rather load on idle. The solution was to control fanspeed with fan2go: https://github.com/markusressel/fan2go (plus radeon-profile controls the speed of the gpu, making it silent on idle as well.)

Fan2go is not only nice to use, it also solves the issue the article's author will run into in the future: Those hwmon paths are not stable anymore. It's possible they will work on his hardware if there is only one (or none, as in the thinkpad example using a different system), but otherwise the script will stop working with new kernels after reboots.

If you want to try a different solution I suggest to give fan2go a try.