MSI Laptop fan Control
from Ashiette@lemmy.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 24 Sep 2024 18:44
https://lemmy.world/post/20144197

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/20144115

MSI laptop fan control

Hello,

Until this week I was using Windows for gaming. However since it won’t recognise any HDMI screen I switched to linux gaming.

So far, everything I heard was true. We can play on Linux !

There is, however, one small “issue” that I have. I have a MSI laptop (GF65 Thin 10UE) and until now I managed the fans with Dragon Center when gaming. With Linux I don’t seem to have that possibility, which leads to overheating issues.

Is there any tool suited to manage fans on MSI, since isw doesn’t seem to be compatible with my particular model…

#linux

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Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml on 24 Sep 2024 22:14 next collapse

Is that a fucking 3.5 inch HDD

Telorand@reddthat.com on 24 Sep 2024 22:57 collapse

Pretty sure it’s a 2.5" HDD.

data1701d@startrek.website on 25 Sep 2024 00:36 next collapse

Still a bit bizarre. I feel like with 2TB NVMe as cheap as it is, HDDs in anything remotely portable are insane.

Now they make sense in RAID/NAS stuff, but I feel like ones the 3.5” ones.

SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee on 25 Sep 2024 16:34 collapse

The egregious part is that it’s a mechanical drive and not an SSD or an SSD adapter

Toribor@corndog.social on 27 Sep 2024 21:58 collapse

I see there is an m.2 slot too with what looks to be a Kingston SSD.

I’m still confused what era this laptop is from. It might be a SATA m.2.

Dreyns@lemmy.ml on 24 Sep 2024 22:39 next collapse

I had a similar issue with my asus, and some dude made a workaround, if you’re motivated you can always make your own heat / speed setup with fancontrol

Ashiette@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 2024 05:24 collapse

That’s what I’m searching for… a workaround ! I can’t see my fans in fancontrol

Johanno@feddit.org on 25 Sep 2024 16:34 collapse

In your Nvidia settings can you control the fan speed?

Ashiette@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 2024 17:23 collapse

No, I can’t… I found two possibilities :

  1. Use MControlCenter, that I can’t seem to build because it can’t find Qt (I have it installed)
  2. Build a custom kernel with ec_sys enabled, which I can’t do because 'm not sure where to find Nobara Kernel and if that would not make my games stop working…
Johanno@feddit.org on 25 Sep 2024 18:49 next collapse

Well that sucks then. You probably won’t find anything that then is able to do that on your system. I am not that of an expert, but I would suggest to look if you can find a Linux os that has the correct kernel

TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml on 26 Sep 2024 04:11 next collapse

Just a blind guess, but maybe some issue with the makefile?

Para_lyzed@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 2024 12:54 collapse

Can you paste the output of the build so we can see what specific package it is missing? Qt is not a single package, and it’s very likely that you need the developer package qt-devel and its associated libraries to build, not just the base package.

Ashiette@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 2024 15:48 collapse

That might be true…

I found a solution, I compiled the program on my Arch distro and installed it on Nobara. But it couldn’t read anything since the ec_sys module was missing so I sorta just gave up.

Para_lyzed@lemmy.world on 03 Oct 2024 23:19 collapse

Sorry for the late reply, I’m not on Lemmy often.

It seems that, according to a Reddit thread, the Nobara kernel should include support for ec_sys. What does the command modinfo ec_sys output? If it doesn’t return modinfo: ERROR: Module ec_sys not found., then you should just be able to enable it with sudo modprobe ec_sys and then enable it persistently across reboots with echo ec_sys | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

EDIT: Replaced output redirection with sudo tee in case you are not running the command as root.

Ashiette@lemmy.world on 05 Oct 2024 09:30 collapse

Thank you for your answer. I also read that thread but unfortunately modinfo return module not found…

data1701d@startrek.website on 25 Sep 2024 00:34 next collapse

I like CoreCtrl. I don’t know how well it works with Intel and Nvidia, but it’s great on my AMD Thinkpad and desktop.

Nice thing is it’s in most distros’ repos these days.

sgibson5150@slrpnk.net on 25 Sep 2024 01:24 collapse

When I installed Bazzite on my Asus laptop I got an Armory Crate application. There seems to be something similar for MSI laptops called MControlCenter, but don’t know anything about it. Hope this gets you going in the right direction.