

If you are an Arch, you are luckier since is it available on the AUR.

On some Dell laptops the fan speed is controlled by the BIOS to disable this behavior we can install a simple C program. # Debian (Ubuntu) # sudo apt install i8kutils -y # Arch users - search on AUR or git clone the PGKBUILD # You can install it with the following commands I8kmon is a program that let you take control the fan and monitor the CPU temperatures on Dell Laptops. However, make your very own configuration is easy enough but make sure to read the all article because you can really damage your machine if it is not properly set. Fortunately, Manjaro is not Windows but there was some issues with the default configuration of the fan. Now, I hate the noise of the fan, especially if I am surfing the web or just reading a PDF on Windows 10, there Windows Update starts randomically while the system is in idle and forces the CPU to 100% for like 15 minutes triggering the fan. See Fan speed control#Dell laptops for more information.Thermal tweaks on DELL laptops running linuxĪ constant problem I had on my Dell laptop was with the fan noise. A working fan profile will look something like this: Setting the left fan speed has no effect. This model only has one fan, and it is identified as the right fan. Note that manually setting the fan profile has a drawback of not letting the fan reach full speed (6000 RPM BIOS control, 5500 RPM manual). The BIOS seems to override fan control by default, so install dell-bios-fan-control-git AUR to give control of the fan to the OS. To make the laptop to run cooler, use i8kutils AUR to manually set the fan start temperature. The default fan settings allow the CPU to reach 70-85 ☌ before the fan speeds up. (Discuss in Talk:Dell Inspiron 13 (5378)) Hardware Reason: Stub, misses IDs in the hardware table, an accessibility, firmware and function keys section.
