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[Pop_OS] Laptop's fan goes loud on lid open (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I installed Pop_OS in place of ubuntu last week, and loving it so far. Most things worked out-of-the-box, but there is this one thing that has been bothering me.

Whenever I open the lid of my laptop, the fan goes crazy and becomes very loud. Strangely, changing the battery option to "High Performance" seems to silence it. Why is this happening, and how can I remedy this issue?

My laptop is ASUS ROG Zephyrus, and yes I should not have chosen this one.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you check if there is high load when the fan spins up?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I think the load should be pretty low since only firefox is running with 0~1 tabs opened.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It should, yes. But is it, actually?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Is there a way to see this? Sorry, I am lost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You could use the system Monitor, it is built-in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah, it seems to briefly spikes to 100%, then dies down later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

So the fans stay loud even when cpu load is low again?

If not this could just be some kinds of "dust prevention"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, it stays loud until I change the battery settings.

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 7 months ago

I think he means that the CPU may be spiking the instant you open the lid.

Maybe test it with a ssh connection?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if this will help, but there is a project to improve the Linux experience on ROG Laptops: https://asus-linux.org/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Also remember to check this: https://universal-blue.org/images/asus/

Those images should work easily out of the box and give you a very gentle experience in general :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Besides the uBlue-image I recommended in the other comment (Link here), which should give you a great OOTB-experience and which you should try first if you want, maybe check out fancontrol.

Sadly, fancontrol is a bit more complicated and might make your device overheat if you reduce the cooling fan speed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You may want to try [email protected] or [email protected]