Core i7 Cpu user come in please, cpu fan speed.

[yingwuzhao]

Do you guys think it is related to BIOS?

I mean should I contact ASUS for solution or wait for better support from linux, waiting it to catch up ?

Any suggestion?

[yingwuzhao]

By the way,

Where should I file this issue? to kernel developing groups or who else?


thansk

[earthpigg]

posting here so i can find this thread later.

will finish assembly of my new i7 computer over the next few days, will report back with any issues.

[yingwuzhao]

Great, earthpigg.

Please include your hardware configuration, most importantly I guess is the mobo.

I hope for good news from you

best

[bear24rw]

After a few updates 'sensors' no longer picks up half the sensors it used to, including fan speed

(im on evga x58 micro mobo)

[yingwuzhao]

Oh, really? that's weird.

But you don't really need the lm-sensors to tell the huge cpu fan speed difference under idle in linux and windows-7, in my case, I easily hear/see the difference

Until now, I still have no clue where should I file the issue: the right people who is supposed to make this work.

[Yellow Pasque]

Try slowing your fan down with 'pwmconfig'

[yingwuzhao]

Is there any core i7 user get the fan slow down by doing that?
I definitely tried it before I even think of posting the issue.

It does NOT work. And I tried to mess up with the configuration file, no work. I know someone slow the fan down by relate another non-cpu temp to the fan control by editing the configuration file.

That is way too "dirty" and dangerous, which I don't consider a solution.

[earthpigg]

After a few updates 'sensors' no longer picks up half the sensors it used to, including fan speed

(im on evga x58 micro mobo)

lm-sensors does not work for me in Ubuntu, either, though i havent played with it much. (not at home right now, so cant test right now)

didn't want to invest to much time as i only installed ubuntu as a proof-of-concept to see if the computer was assembled correctly.... Arch will be the eventual distro on that machine.

mobo is an ASUS "P6T Deluxe V2".

manually slowing down the fan speed - without lm-sensors working - doesn't sound smart.

my *guess* (i'd love to be proven wrong) is just that lm-sensors does not yet work with i7 mobos/cpus. has anyone tried ubuntu 9.10 alpha? or a rolling release distro, yet?

In the Ubuntu world, we may need to wait for 9.10 or need to find/use an lm-sensors PPA.

the bug report, if it needs to be filed, would be on launchpad and sourceforge. launchpad for Ubuntu (with lm-sensors as the 'package hint', and sourceforge for the upstream lm-sensors devs. (im assuming sourceforge is where lm-sensors devs hang out. could be wrong.)

edit: note these google results - http://www.google.com/search?q=i7+lm-sensors

[bear24rw]

Im on Karmic right now like i said lm-sensors was working great and detecting a ton of temps and fan speeds on my board but on of the updates broke it, hopefully they fix the regression