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That’d be a first for a working fan controller on Linux

• hsbauauvhabzb 5y ago
  Now if only I could figure out how to control the RGB leds in my case…
  • rasz 5y ago
    >commander PRO can feed 6x PWM fan control and offers 2-channel individually addressable RGB lighting control
  • josteink 5y ago
    > Now if only I could figure out how to control the RGB leds in my case… OpenRGB not working for you? See previous HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27457696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27457696
• Fnoord 5y ago
  Back when AMD64 was relatively new I had a case with various case fans which I could control. The machine ran Linux. I controlled the fans by hand with knobs. I know this isn't what you meant but what's inherently bad for this if its a PC you have physical access to? What I did was put the fans down when I went to sleep. Its not like you can change power profiles dynamically, only on remote computers software controlled is better. And if its remote machines, who cares about the noise?
• gpderetta 5y ago
  I can control them almost perfectly on my linux box: the bios set the speed as a function of the temperature, so if I want to spin the fans up, I just need to fire up some intensive computation. A power virus easily bring them to top speed. Very convenient. When I want a quieter computer I just need to kill every single process, although powering the machine off seems to be the most reliable.
• Arnavion 5y ago
  PWM headers on desktop mobos work fine for me. I assume the author's problems are indeed specifically with server mobos as they say, not "Linux" in general.
• hansel_der 5y ago
  https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/fancontrol/fancontrol.8.en.html https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/fancontrol/fancontrol.8... https://github.com/vitorafsr/i8kutils https://github.com/vitorafsr/i8kutils