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Tldr: Are there fan drivers I should look into for my Gigabyte Aorus XC laptop (Intel i7; RTX 3070; 32GB RAM), so my fans do not get stuck at 100% when running Linux? I installed Mint 2 yrs ago when this happened. Im aware I cant tell for sure without doing another live boot, but I'd like to prepared just in case.

EDIT: I tried solving this before with acpi fan module also to no avail. I checked lm-sensors scripts for my device before posting this today and there were none still. I also googled for solutions beforehand and did not find anything relevant for my device. Furthermore, when I did a live boot before, the fans were working normally, but on installing either Mint or Ubuntu the fans were maxed out. If I have to install to test things out, then there's not much point to a live boot for this in the first place.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Your previous post did register, be patient.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you used the fancontrol script from lm-sensors yet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried that before and it did not work, however I guess its worth a shot again. Can I install it in live boot?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've never tried to do that but probably. It might require you to have a recent kernel and Nvidia drivers installed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A bit of fishing around turns this up: https://gist.github.com/bakman2/e801f342aaa7cade62d7bd54fd3eabd8 If the sensor/fan controller chip in your laptop is indeed one of the it87 models, you will need either the out-of-tree kernel module recommended on that page, or maybe just a quite recent kernel—the it87 chip on my mobo (completely different model from a completely different manufacturer, though) is supported in-tree as of kernel 6.1. I was using the out-of-tree module during 2018-2022, and it was touchy and required a boot param to allow it to load despite an ACPI conflict (that might have been fixed, though.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago