Hi, I want to ask owners of this laptop who has or are running linux on it, if they use fan control software of any kind and if they know how to get it working in xubuntu 16.04 64bit.
On my R500 I have Xubuntu 14.04 32bit and tpfand installed because the CPU/GPU tend to get a bit hot, last version were made for 14.04 and 14.10, not 16.04 and not for 64bit, also I read something about thinkpad_acpi no longer is in the kernel.
I don't know if it's even needed on my X300 as I just started using it with 16.04 yesterday, but in case it can be installed then I rather have it when its not needed - than need it and not have it.
It does not have to tpfand, but that one is nice because of the GUI - so do you know of any such program for 16.04 64bit?
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SOLUTION: TP X300 - fan control for Xubuntu 16.04 64bit?
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SOLUTION: TP X300 - fan control for Xubuntu 16.04 64bit?
Last edited by Insomniac1971 on Fri Sep 29, 2017 6:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: TP X300 - fan control for Xubuntu 16.04 64bit?
thinkfan - simple and lightweight fan control program
requires you install
lm-sensors - utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors
And, perhaps, requires adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/thinkpad_acpi.conf:
options thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1
(Perhaps that's not required on Ubuntu, or it may be a different file.)
requires you install
lm-sensors - utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors
And, perhaps, requires adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/thinkpad_acpi.conf:
options thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1
(Perhaps that's not required on Ubuntu, or it may be a different file.)
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Re: TP X300 - fan control for Xubuntu 16.04 64bit?
For anyone looking for same solution, here is a guide:
Requirements
* Python 2.7
* DBus, GTK+, libglade and GNU gettext with bindings for Python
* pkexec to obtain superuser privileges
Ubuntu users need to install the package python-gobject
Download
https://github.com/tpfanco/tpfancod
https://github.com/tpfanco/tpfanco-admin
then extract the files to a temporary folder
Go to the tpfancod-master folder and open a terminal, then run this command
sudo make install-systemd
Then
sudo systemctl enable tpfancod
Reboot your laptop
Then in terminal run
systemctl status tpfancod
Close the terminal window if everything ok, if not then go to https://github.com/tpfanco/tpfancod/issues and file the issue
Now open the tpfanco-admin-master folder
Open a terminal and run
sudo make install
then
Reboot your laptop
Open a terminal and run
tpfanco-admin_polkit
Reboot once more and you can find tpfanco-admin in Applications>Settings
You have to type your password for it to work.
Hope this helps someone
JBJ
Requirements
* Python 2.7
* DBus, GTK+, libglade and GNU gettext with bindings for Python
* pkexec to obtain superuser privileges
Ubuntu users need to install the package python-gobject
Download
https://github.com/tpfanco/tpfancod
https://github.com/tpfanco/tpfanco-admin
then extract the files to a temporary folder
Go to the tpfancod-master folder and open a terminal, then run this command
sudo make install-systemd
Then
sudo systemctl enable tpfancod
Reboot your laptop
Then in terminal run
systemctl status tpfancod
Close the terminal window if everything ok, if not then go to https://github.com/tpfanco/tpfancod/issues and file the issue
Now open the tpfanco-admin-master folder
Open a terminal and run
sudo make install
then
Reboot your laptop
Open a terminal and run
tpfanco-admin_polkit
Reboot once more and you can find tpfanco-admin in Applications>Settings
You have to type your password for it to work.
Hope this helps someone
JBJ
Last edited by Insomniac1971 on Fri Sep 29, 2017 5:36 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: TP X300 - fan control for Xubuntu 16.04 64bit?
Now I just have to figure out why the fan RPM levels is reported so high - In idle the fan is reported as 5731 rpm level 255 which is hwctrl it should be something like 2000 and full fan speed is reported as 10151 rpm level 256 which should be something like 5000 - very strange.
Maybe someone here can explain this.
JBJ
Maybe someone here can explain this.
JBJ
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