Lubuntu: acerhdf.conf
John Hupp
lubuntu at prpcompany.com
Sat May 31 16:33:13 UTC 2014
Great idea Phill (if we can solve it). I found that there was no *buntu
documentation on the topic.
On 5/30/2014 9:32 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for keeping us updated. Once you have solved it, I'd like your
> experience of what you find to get it into a wiki area for people who
> come after you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 31 May 2014 02:12, John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com
> <mailto:lubuntu at prpcompany.com>> wrote:
>
> I correct myself: fancontrol does have to be installed
> separately. It includes pwmconfig.
>
> When I ran sudo pwmconfig, it reported "There are no pwm-capable
> sensor modules installed."
>
> This despite the fact that sensors-detect *did* find a sensor that
> it could use and configured the coretemp module to load in support
> of that.
>
> I don't have a conclusion yet, but clearly I would have hoped for
> pwmconfig to find something that fancontrol could govern.
>
>
> On 5/30/2014 8:20 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>> You say that you installed lm-sensors (and fancontrol, although I
>> think fancontrol is simply part of the lm-sensors package) and
>> detail some things about lsmod and the desired fan control settings.
>>
>> But when you ran sensors-detect, what did it detect, and what if
>> any modules did it proposed to install?
>>
>> I say this because the README warns regarding laptops:
>>
>> HARDWARE SUPPORT
>> ----------------
>>
>> To find out what hardware you have, just run 'sensors-detect'
>> as root.
>>
>> Most modern mainboards incorporate some form of hardware
>> monitoring chips.
>> These chips read things like chip temperatures, fan rotation
>> speeds and
>> voltage levels. There are quite a few different chips which
>> can be used by
>> mainboard builders for approximately the same results.
>>
>> Laptops, on the other hand, rarely expose any hardware monitoring
>> chip. They often have some BIOS and/or ACPI magic to get the CPU
>> temperature value, but that's about it. For such laptops, the
>> lm-sensors
>> package is of no use (sensors-detect will not find anything),
>> and you have
>> to use acpi instead.
>>
>> This package doesn't contain chip-specific knowledge. It will
>> support all
>> the hardware monitoring chips your kernel has drivers for. In
>> other words,
>> if you find out that you have unsupported hardware (e.g.
>> sensors-detect
>> told you so) then it means that you need a more recent
>> kernel, or you
>> even need to wait for a new kernel driver to be written.
>> Updating the
>> lm-sensors package itself will not help.
>>
>>
>> On 5/29/2014 4:34 AM, Morten Bjerremann Nielsen wrote:
>>> Thank you, for the answer Israel.
>>>
>>> I will try to give you the info, in this reply:)
>>>
>>> My CPU is a 64bit (Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3337U CPU @ 1.80GHz).
>>>
>>> The output of the lshw is attached as a text file, with this reply.
>>>
>>> I haven't had this running on any previous version, but i'm currently
>>> running Linux V5-572G 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2
>>> 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux.
>>>
>>> It's my first time running Lubuntu on this computer.
>>>
>>> Hope you can help.
>>>
>>> -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards Morten Bjerremann Nielsen On
>>> Tue, 2014-05-27 at 20:47 -0500, Israel wrote:
>>>> >Hi, it would help to know more about your processor... it looks like you
>>>> >have intel, so is it 32bit or 64?
>>>> >a more exact model name would also be helpful, to others who know more
>>>> >about this...
>>>> >The command lshw (or rather 'sudo lshw') will list out your hardware.
>>>> >please run it as sudo, so a more complete output it generated.
>>>> >you can output it into a file by running something like:
>>>> >sudo lshw > lshw.txt
>>>> >
>>>> >Thanks! Also, it is usually very useful to know the exact Kernel and
>>>> >version of the OS you are using
>>>> >uname -a will show all the info about the kernel version
>>>> >and I am guessing you might be using 14.04...
>>>> >
>>>> >Also... have you had this working in a previous version, or is this the
>>>> >first time you have used Lubuntu on this computer?
>>>> >
>>>> >On 05/27/2014 12:42 PM, Morten Bjerremann Nielsen wrote:
>>>>> > >Hi everyone.
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > >I'm trying to get the "acerhdf.conf" to work on my Acer Aspire V5-572G.
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > >I've installed the "lm-sensors" and "fancontrol" as well, but nothing
>>>>> > >works.
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > >My wish, is for the fans to constantly run a little, because i game a
>>>>> > >lot and wan't my computer to run cool.
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > >This is the settings I wish to use:
>>>>> > >"options acerhdf kernelmode = 1 fanon = 45000 fanoff = 40000"
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > >And this is the output of "lsmod":
>>>>> > >Module Size Used by
>>>>> > >ctr 13049 3
>>>>> > >ccm 17773 3
>>>>> > >bbswitch 13943 0
>>>>> > >dm_crypt 23177 0
>>>>> > >acer_wmi 32522 0
>>>>> > >sparse_keymap 13948 1 acer_wmi
>>>>> > >rfcomm 69160 8
>>>>> > >intel_rapl 18773 0
>>>>> > >bnep 19624 2
>>>>> > >x86_pkg_temp_thermal 14205 0
>>>>> > >intel_powerclamp 14705 0
>>>>> > >kvm_intel 143060 0
>>>>> > >kvm 451511 1 kvm_intel
>>>>> > >crct10dif_pclmul 14289 0
>>>>> > >crc32_pclmul 13113 0
>>>>> > >ghash_clmulni_intel 13259 0
>>>>> > >snd_hda_codec_hdmi 46207 1
>>>>> > >snd_hda_codec_realtek 61438 1
>>>>> > >aesni_intel 55624 379
>>>>> > >aes_x86_64 17131 1 aesni_intel
>>>>> > >lrw 13286 1 aesni_intel
>>>>> > >gf128mul 14951 1 lrw
>>>>> > >glue_helper 13990 1 aesni_intel
>>>>> > >ablk_helper 13597 1 aesni_intel
>>>>> > >cryptd 20359 189
>>>>> > >ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel,ablk_helper
>>>>> > >snd_hda_intel 52355 1
>>>>> > >snd_hda_codec 192906 3
>>>>> > >snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
>>>>> > >uvcvideo 80885 0
>>>>> > >snd_hwdep 13602 1 snd_hda_codec
>>>>> > >videobuf2_vmalloc 13216 1 uvcvideo
>>>>> > >binfmt_misc 17468 1
>>>>> > >joydev 17381 0
>>>>> > >videobuf2_memops 13362 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
>>>>> > >snd_pcm 102099 3
>>>>> > >snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
>>>>> > >serio_raw 13462 0
>>>>> > >videobuf2_core 40664 1 uvcvideo
>>>>> > >snd_page_alloc 18710 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
>>>>> > >videodev 134688 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
>>>>> > >snd_seq_midi 13324 0
>>>>> > >snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
>>>>> > >arc4 12608 2
>>>>> > >snd_rawmidi 30144 1 snd_seq_midi
>>>>> > >ath3k 13318 0
>>>>> > >ath9k 164164 0
>>>>> > >btusb 32412 0
>>>>> > >ath9k_common 13551 1 ath9k
>>>>> > >ath9k_hw 453856 2 ath9k_common,ath9k
>>>>> > >lpc_ich 21080 0
>>>>> > >ath 28698 3 ath9k_common,ath9k,ath9k_hw
>>>>> > >bluetooth 395423 23 bnep,ath3k,btusb,rfcomm
>>>>> > >mac80211 626489 1 ath9k
>>>>> > >snd_seq 61560 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
>>>>> > >rtsx_pci_ms 18151 0
>>>>> > >snd_seq_device 14497 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
>>>>> > >cfg80211 484040 3 ath,ath9k,mac80211
>>>>> > >snd_timer 29482 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
>>>>> > >memstick 16966 1 rtsx_pci_ms
>>>>> > >snd 69238 13
>>>>> > >snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi
>>>>> > >soundcore 12680 1 snd
>>>>> > >mei_me 18627 0
>>>>> > >mei 82274 1 mei_me
>>>>> > >nvidia 10675249 27
>>>>> > >parport_pc 32701 0
>>>>> > >wmi 19177 1 acer_wmi
>>>>> > >ppdev 17671 0
>>>>> > >mac_hid 13205 0
>>>>> > >coretemp 13435 0
>>>>> > >lp 17759 0
>>>>> > >parport 42348 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
>>>>> > >hid_generic 12548 0
>>>>> > >usbhid 52616 0
>>>>> > >hid 106148 2 hid_generic,usbhid
>>>>> > >rtsx_pci_sdmmc 23274 0
>>>>> > >i915 783485 2
>>>>> > >psmouse 102222 0
>>>>> > >i2c_algo_bit 13413 1 i915
>>>>> > >drm_kms_helper 52758 1 i915
>>>>> > >ahci 25819 1
>>>>> > >libahci 32168 1 ahci
>>>>> > >drm 302817 5 i915,drm_kms_helper,nvidia
>>>>> > >r8169 67581 0
>>>>> > >rtsx_pci 45956 2 rtsx_pci_ms,rtsx_pci_sdmmc
>>>>> > >mii 13934 1 r8169
>>>>> > >video 19476 2 i915,acer_wmi
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > >Hope one of you out there has a solution to my problem.
>>>>> > >
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