It’s time to edit our thinkfan configuration sudo vim /etc/nf If you don’t get any outputs ( similar to the next step ) please Reboot and continue from this step.
sudo find /sys/devices -type f -name "temp*_input" The next step is to find your temperature inputs so take note the results of the following command. It will provide us the temperature inputs. Install thinkfan which is our main program: sudo apt-get install thinkfanĪdd the coretemp module to the startup list. The first thing we will do is to install a program that will provide us information about the sensors of the laptop and their temperatures sudo apt-get install lm-sensorsĬonfigure the application in order to find every available sensor sudo sensors-detectĪnswer Yes to every question and the last confirmation for saving the changes made. So, I am making this tutorial for anyone that has a new Thinkpad (x30/x20 models) and needs to control his fan in order to keep the noise down and get more battery life.Įvery step below uses the terminal so open an instance with the combination CRTL + ALT + T
Control the fan speed of you Thinkpad T430 running Ubuntu 12.04 LTSĪfter researching for a few hours online to find a guide on how to control my Thinkpad’s fan speed I realized that the new models have some differences from previous models and the guides available are not complete if not wrong.
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