Framework 13 AMD - customize fan speed?

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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I am a new owner of the laptop Framework (13" AMD 7040). Ubuntu is what is installed on the machine and most things run as I would like. However, there are some things that bother me and that I have not been able to resolve.

At the outset, I would like to state that I am quite inexperienced in this type of question. So please explain to me as if I were 5 years old :wink:

Iā€™ve noticed that the 3 power profiles donā€™t quite work the way I want them to. (power save, balanced, performance). Or rather, these work reasonably well when I run on battery but less well when the computer is connected to AC

I use htop to monitor CPU and temperature. Looking at the balanced and performance power profiles, the difference is extremely small - which I would like to influence. In addition to this, I would like my fan to start working a little earlier to avoid hiccups. Now the fan barely starts, to later rush up to 100%. I want to tweak this.

The only way I have found so far, to keep a reasonable temperature in the computer, is to use power profile ā€œpower saverā€ or to use cpupower to set the frequency to a lower level and thus achieve a lower temperature. However, I have to do this manually after every reboot.

As previously mentioned, I have set the CPU frequency to pull down the CPU slightly to avoid the heat. This through e.g. sudo cpupower frequency-set -u 4.8GHz. This works and I donā€™t notice much difference in performance in my daily work. However, I have to do this manually as I donā€™t know how to set this at boot.

To try to control the fans, I have used GitHub - TamtamHero/fw-fanctrl: A simple systemd service to better control Framework Laptop's fan(s). The tool gives me the opportunity to configure the fans as I wish, via a json file. There I can decide how the fan should act at a certain temperature - exactly what Iā€™m looking for. However, it doesnā€™t feel like this is being activated at all. Which means that the profile never takes effect.

when I run sudo fw-fanctrl run I get the following results (probably due to the flag I used during installation)

Laptop-13-AMD-Ryzen-7040Series:~$ sudo fw-fanctrl run
Error: Extra parameter found.
Error: Extra parameter found.
Error: Extra parameter found.
Error: Extra parameter found.
speed: 50%, temp: 50Ā°C, movingAverageTemp: 50.0Ā°C, effectureTemp: 50.0Ā°C

speed: 47%, temp: 50Ā°C, movingAverageTemp: 50.0Ā°C, effectureTemp: 50.0Ā°C
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You can try checking if it is working by setting the fan to max speed and seeing if there is any response, If there isnā€™t, you might want to read the documentation and reinstall it.