I’m running Manjaro KDE, the same install that I’ve been using for years.
I’ve been struggling with temperatures on my laptop for quite awhile now whenever I do something remotely intensive, especially anything 3D. It’s been getting to the point of thermal throttling and just freezing up whenever I’m under a reasonably high load. Most recently I had trouble driving a single 4k display at 30fps, with the lid closed.
It took until yesterday for me to notice that there’s no noticeable fan activity. I installed fw-ectool-git from the repos and ran ectool --interface=lpc fanduty 100, which kicked on the fans at full blast and very quickly cooled the device down to 40-50C.
However, when restarting, the fan never comes back on again, even at 100C.
I checked the fan curve and it appears to be set reasonably, but crossing those temperature thresholds has no effect. It appears that it’s set at the default value, according to this post
ectool thermalget
sensor warn high halt fan_off fan_max name
0 0 361 371 313 335 F75303_Local
1 0 361 371 313 342 F75303_CPU
2 0 360 370 313 335 F75303_DDR
3 0 323 333 313 323 Battery
4 368 376 378 377 378 PECI
EC returned error result code 3
(all temps in degrees Kelvin)
I’m not really sure what’s going wrong here. This started because I’m looking to start using my laptop as my primary computer, so I’d like to figure out the root cause for this lack of fan response.
I’m pinging @DHowett as Framework has no official support for Manjaro KDE using ectool.
That said, if you are not able to resolve this with ectool, I’d first verify there isn’t a thermal issue. Boot to a live ISO of Fedora. Play some YouTube videos full screen, see if things go nuts or if it’s a local config issue.
I’m starting to wonder if this is some sort of weird edge case being hit in the EC firmware. I recently got my AMD mainboard and it’s suffering from a similar issue. Happens regardless of what OS is running. Pretty sure that ectool doesn’t support the AMD one yet, so I can’t test setting the fan speed manually. I do know that the fan works though, it seems to spin during POST. Already submitted a support ticket about it, we’ll see if anything comes of it.
+1 I noticed this on my new ryzen board, also in manjaro kde. I tried the supported Fedora 39 beta live and noticed the exact same behavior: the fan dosen’t run until ~100c! Once that happens, it kicks in and takes everything back down. Web browsing and video playing only brings up the temps to 50c, but a stress test or 3d game will hit that ceiling quickly. I had just chalked it up to an aggressively silent fan curve; now I’m not so sure… Hoping bios 3.03 is better.
Also, I did repaste to see if it was just a bad factory job; even with ptm7950, the behavior is the same. At least with that TIM, it cools off much faster once the fan does start moving.
It’s certainly an odd fix, but what cleared it up for me was booting up the live environment of Ubuntu 22.04.
Now that everything works on my end, I think I can confirm that it’s just a really weird fan curve. It seems to prioritize noise over everything else, leaving load temps a little hotter than the 11th gen. Probably a direct response to the complaints about fan noise, but it may be a bit overboard. The fan does actually spin before you actually hear it. Try opening the laptop and observing the fan when temps are in the 70s and 80s.
Actually, that’s where my concerns started; I noticed how hot the bottom was getting so I ran a few tests with the top off and noticed no movement from the fan under normal browser use, getting up to uncomfortable temps (~50). I guess I was just expecting it to behave like the 11th gen board. You’re right, though: if it gets toasty enough (~60 in my case) the fan will gently bring it back down to around 50 before cutting out again. I guess it really is just a silent curve.