thinkfan Reviews and details

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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. Source: 10 months ago

• 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. Source: over 1 year ago

• Black screen after suspend resume - gnome wayland

  Solved that with Thinkfan (https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan). Source: over 1 year ago

• 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. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• 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!):. Source: over 1 year ago

• Correctly setting up a t490 for linux

  Furthermore I'd also highly recommend setting up custom fan curves with thinkfan or an equivalent: https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan Default fan curves on Lenovo machines are way to aggressive. Imho it's perfectly fine to have the fan not running at all until the CPU reaches ~55°C. This will ensure that the machine is completely silent on lighter workloads. Source: about 2 years ago

• W520 : fan always running (5% CPU and Cool T)

  On native Winblows I'm not certain, but here's a GNU/Linux program that can set the fan speed arbitrarily (including just turning it off, regardless of temperature). I don't know how much WSL is allowed to interact with the hardware but maybe you can run it through there? Source: about 2 years ago

• t490 + undervolt + thinkfan = Perfect silent thinkfan

  I'am using this (for linux) https://github.com/vmatare/thinkfan. Source: over 2 years ago

• Opinion: The PC Enthusiast's Case for Trying Arch Linux.

  It's not only Nvidia, to get the fan speed of my motherboard I needed to change a boot parameter than can be insecure. After that, to control a fan with the GPU temperature on Linux wasn't trivial, since only last versions of thinkfan have this feature. Source: over 2 years ago

• Tiny series fan throttling fan under Linux

  Can we use thinkfan to configure the fan of those Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny boxes like the ones of ThinkPads? Or are there other solutions? Just being skeptical about fan noise before getting an M73, M75q, M720q, … Thanks. Source: over 2 years ago

• Thinkbook 15 Gen 2 ITL

  PS: I tried to set the fan speed with some third party sw on Windows like: NotebookFanControl , SpeedFan and also on Linux with ThinkFan But they don't recognize the fan. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Most silent iGPU between AMD and Intel ?

  It's not the simplest solution, but I changed the original cooler of my GPU with a regular 120mm PWM one, so I can control using thinkfan. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Fan problems

  Maybe try thinkfan, you can read more about it here and here. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Nvidia expects GPU shortage to continue 'for much of this year'

  I'm using thinkfan to control a PWM fan using the GPU temperature (nvidia-smi). You can define the curves, works flawlessly with my GTX 1650 on Pop_OS!. Source: about 3 years ago