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MSI Laptop fan Control (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://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...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In your Nvidia settings can you control the fan speed?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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...
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that a fucking 3.5 inch HDD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pretty sure it's a 2.5" HDD.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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.