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mbpfan
Discontinued A simple daemon to control fan speed on all MacBook/MacBook Pros (probably all Apple computers) for Linux Kernel 3 and newer [Moved to: https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan] (by dgraziotin)
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[Linux@T460] Fan running non-stop (every now and then)
I use Thinkfan on my T420, T440, X230 and X1 that run Linux. I linked the author's github page, but I believe it's available straight from the package manager in Ubuntu/Mint, so elementary might have it too
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Is there a fan control app for thinkpads?
For Linux: thinkfan
- How hot does the x230 get under the keyboard?
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Fans issue on my Lenovo Thinpad P16s AMD on Ubuntu
I have found Thinkfan seems to be a good way to control Thinkpad fans on Ubuntu. https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan
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Black screen after suspend resume - gnome wayland
Solved that with Thinkfan (https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan)
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The minimum viable fan control script
The second solution on this page probably isn't reliable, because hwmon paths like `hwmon3` depend on module load order.
That's likely the same reason for the `card*` workaround mentioned above.
I am using thinkfan for this and it works really well: https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan
- [T440p] cannot find fans to control
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Building thinkfan from source: DSO missing from command line
I wrote about it here: https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan/issues/190
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Problem building thinkfan from source: DSO missing from command line
As thinkfan (https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan) doesn't come prepackaged with my Debian version I tried to build it myself. I installed all the libraries as instructed in the README file, and followed the build instructions. Running cmake works fine, but then when I run make I get the following linker error that I cannot solve no matter what I try (this is actually my first time building a project!):
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Configure Thinkfan in Fedora 36?
you can learn more about the configuration file here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fan_speed_control/thinkfan https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan/blob/master/examples/thinkfan.yaml
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vmatare/thinkfan is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of thinkfan is C.
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