Lenovo Laptops To Enjoy Better Fan Speed Monitoring With Linux 7.1

Posted by kin20@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 12 comments

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thatwombat@reddit

Whether or not this is necessarily true anymore a long time ago when I got my Lenovo T520 it came out of the box with the fan speed control bug. It would ramp up and down repeatedly irrespective of load. After about three months of what was truly insanity inducing, they released a new firmware that fixed the problem. Based on that experience, I can completely understand why this was an issue.

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FrozenPizza07@reddit

Lenovo has a very aggressive fan curve even on windows. Laptop would sit quiet for half an hour the turn into a turbo fan for a minute when you open firefox

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Dramatic_Mastodon_93@reddit

Do ThinkPads not need this or?

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grem75@reddit

They use a different driver. This probably just brings the IdeaPads and similar up to the same level of support.

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DynoMenace@reddit

I have a Slim series (Yoga by a different name) and yeah, I don't think I've had a single utility work with the fans. Luckily BIOS manages it fine.

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GlutenFreeToaster@reddit

Joke's on you all, my Lenovo laptop doesn't have any fans. The N6000 in it doesn't get hot enough

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mesaprotector@reddit

I'm curious how well this will work. I use LenovoLegionLinux for fan speed and toggling rapid charge (not really for much else to be honest).

Even on Windows with official tools, fan control has many issues. Of course my not-fully-up-to-date BIOS may not be helping.

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That being said, progress is always great! Love to see it.

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MichiganRedWing@reddit

No LOQ support?

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lf310@reddit

Some of the laptops tested so far include the Yoga 14cACN, Yoga 710/720, Yoga Pro 7/9, Yoga Slim 7, IdeaPad 5, Legion 5 AMD, Legion 7i Intel, LOQ 15/16, ThinkBook G6, Flex 5, and various pre-2020 models using a legacy interface.