After typing in sudo pwmconfig I get an error saying there are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed Answer from Deleted User on reddit.com
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Fan profile software for Linux Mint? - Linux Mint Forums
April 5, 2024 - Unfortunately, as far as I can see there are no fan controls/profiles available in the BIOS. You gotta be careful when buying hardware. If the hardware requires a Windows software to do BIOS updates, handle fan speed etc. then you won't have a good time running Linux on it.
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February 14, 2025 -

I've installed mint over pop_os and honestly I'm so happy. I think it's much more stable and I've not faced any of the issues I faced with pop. In saying that I can not get my fans to turn off. Even on Windows my fans barely ever turned on to the point I almost forgot I had them.

Can someone please show me how to turn these things off because they're starting to annoy me lol.

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Fan speed program [Solved] - Linux Mint Forums
December 2, 2021 - Agentl074 has a Folder called System Tools on his desktop, which is a good indicator that it is a manually created user Folder. "System Tool" is not a Folder in a standard Mint Cinnamon 20.2 install. ... You can use fancontrol: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fan_speed_control but first, does your fan speed show up in sensors?
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Lm-sensors is a hardware health monitoring package for Linux. It allows you to access information from temperature, voltage, and fan speed sensors. It works with most newer systems. This package contains a daemon that calculates fan speeds from temperatures and sets the corresponding PWM outputs ...
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Fan Control - Linux Mint Forums
It would help us to know more about your system setup. If you run "inxi -Fxzd" and "lsusb" from the console terminal prompt, highlight the results, copy and paste them back here; that should provide enough information. Controlling Fan Speed in Linux | Baeldung on Linux https://www.baeldung...
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fan speed [SOLVED] - Linux Mint Forums
May 7, 2021 - I agree that the lack of easy to use hardware agnostic fan control software in Linux is a pain. So first thing i do is check my systems BIOS and see that the fan is working fine there (just in case i have a hardware issue in terms of no working fans etc)). Then i will physically check the fans are working by taking off whatever case i am using to expose the fans then boot the system up and see (hear?) if they are all spinning under Mint ...
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(Solved) How can fan speed be adjusted automatically according to temperature? - Linux Mint Forums
January 23, 2019 - If you want to compile without systemd support set the -DNO_SYSTEMD option. https://github.com/Maldela/fancontrol-gui Very high fan speed on Ubuntu 18.04 - Ask Ubuntu https://askubuntu.com/questions/1032109 ... untu-18-04 What is a good GUI application to control the fan speed ? : Ubuntu https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comment ... l_the_fan/ Hope this helps ... Phd21: Mint 22 Cinnamon & KDE Neon 64-bit Awesome OS's, Dell Inspiron I5 7000 (7573, quad core i5-8250U) 2 in 1 touch screen ... I have Windows, UnionTech OS, and Linux Mint on the same HDD.
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Controling fan speed mint 19.2 - Linux Mint Forums
October 9, 2019 - Could you share your fix, if you can still remember? Was it a simple BIOS setting you could change? Hi Carum, Within BIOS (X470 chipset) there were graphs you could play around with which had fan speeds vs temps. I had to 'experiment' to bring them all down and of course turn off TurboCPU.
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[SOLVED] How do I control case fan speeds? - Linux Mint Forums
January 20, 2018 - With modern motherboards, I generally recommend letting BIOS adjust fan speeds using temp sensors to monitor. How do you have the Chassis Q-Fan Control options set in BIOS? Were you using a fan control utility in Windows 7? I'm guessing you aren't using anything to check sensors. lm-sensors is normally used to get temps, voltages, and fans. I'm suggesting lm-sensors, as that is the basic monitoring utility for Linux, and hopefully will help determine which fans are running high and what temps are involved.
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3 weeks ago - After creating the fancontrol ... according to the configurations defined in /etc/fancontrol. nbfc-linux is short for “Notebook Fan Control – Linux”. It’s a Linux implementation of the original nbfc, and it controls ...
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However, it is ** very important ** that you physically verify that the fans have been to full speed after the program has completed. Found the following devices: hwmon0 is bnxt_en hwmon1 is bnxt_en hwmon2 is k10temp hwmon3 is k10temp hwmon4 is amdgpu Found the following PWM controls: hwmon4/pwm1 current value: 0 hwmon4/pwm1 is currently setup for automatic speed control.
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December 1, 2018 -

I tried to use lm_sensors, but was greeted with /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed\

what should I do change my fan speeds?

Edit:

I have a 2012 MacBook pro 13 Inch, 2.5 Ghz intel core i5. The problem is that the CPU fan only increases its rpm if the temp reaches 85c, which too high. I’d prefer it to be something like 65c.

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how to configure laptop fan speeds - Linux Mint Forums
October 20, 2023 - I still love Mint ... Hey mate, You might have better luck than me with "fancontrol". Install it via the usual sudo apt install fancontrol means. It does require lmsensors also though. I tried it on my laptop, but I don't have any pwm fans that it could probe. I haven't got another machine nearby that I can test with, but there is a pretty good how-to over at: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/control-fan-speed -- KegRaider
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How to control fan speed? - Linux Mint Forums
July 6, 2022 - To do so from Update Manager select View-> Linux Kernels from the menu and install the latest 5.15 or higher series kernel; 5.15.0-33 at the time of writing. Reboot into it. If not we'd need the output of inxi -Fxz; post it in between [code]...[/code] tags please. Thank you for your reply. But this doesn't seem to solve this problem of controlling fan speed.
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June 15, 2017 -

I'm about to transition to Linux Mint on my laptop, and I was wondering if you are able to control the fan speed/thresholds for laptops on Linux.

I'm pretty new to Linux so I don't really know too much about this stuff. Am I able to set the fan speeds/thresholds using the terminal? Or is there software I can download which lets me control it?

Coming from Windows, I am able to use a program called 'NoteBook Fan Control' which allows me to control the fan (disabling it, changing the active fan thresholds, etc.).

https://github.com/hirschmann/nbfc

Is there anything like this for Linux?

Thanks.

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I can't change the speed of all fans - Linux Mint Forums
July 23, 2020 - Found the following fan sensors: hwmon1/fan1_input current speed: 2213 RPM hwmon1/fan2_input current speed: 0 ... skipping! hwmon1/fan3_input current speed: 0 ... skipping! hwmon1/fan4_input current speed: 0 ... skipping! Warning!!! This program will stop your fans, one at a time, for approximately 5 seconds each!!! This may cause your processor temperature to rise!!! If you do not want to do this hit control-C now!!!
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Is there a way to control CPU fans? - Linux Mint Forums
January 17, 2023 - AndyMH wrote: Sun Jan 22, 2023 6:36 amuseful background: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fan_speed_control Interesting, thank you! ... Think the critical temps are sensors misreading what is in BIOS. I suspect if LMsensors doesn't see the fan speed then none of the linux fan control programs will work.