Fixing fan speed on Lenovo Thinkpads

[Member skeptichacker]

If you try to install antiX on some of the more modern Lenovo Thinkpads you will end up most likely with a constantly humming CPU fan. I had the problem on my brand new Lenovo Thinkpad P15s recently and managed to fix it using the *thinkfan* utility with some help from https://gist.github.com/Yatoom/1c80b8afe7fa47a938d3b667ce234559 .

However the steps given in that gist needs some tweaks for Thinkpads (and antiX!) – so I have written a more up to date gist which I think should become useful for those having the same problem with Lenovo Thinkpads on antiX.

https://gist.github.com/pythonhacker/cca8e65f3ffa1639d2ab196d917cd760

Hope this helps. Let me know if this helped you save a few precious hours 🙂 Happy “antiX”-ing.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by skeptichacker.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by skeptichacker.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by skeptichacker. Reason: fixed antiX

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Thanks. I’m sure that will come in very useful.

Could you change Antix to its correct spelling – antiX.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Without installing thinkfan. My t430 fan cycles on and off like it should. I have acpitools installed and have seen the fan at 0 value .

But. I am version 19, 64bit, on this unit. Just did a dist-upgrade and for grins when I started on your instructions in 19.

$ apt-cache policy yaml-cpp-dev 
N: Unable to locate package yaml-cpp-dev

So I quit there. Just feedback bro. Now the fan kicked on while I was typing this out.

harry@biker:~
$ acpitool -f
  Fan            : enabled
  Fan Speed      : 3216 RPM
harry@biker:~

I am usually on my chromebook antiX 19 install.

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[Member skeptichacker]

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Thanks for the feedback. It should be libyaml-cpp-dev. Corrected on the gist 🙂

[Member alanwake82]

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My Dell series and it has similar issue but not all the time, I’ll give it a try…

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