[RESPONDED] Systems temperatures get very high. fw-fanctrl not working

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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Hello,

One month ago i recieved the framework 13 amd 7840u laptop. i followed the ubuntu 22.04 guide. ubuntu 22.04 is the only OS i use on this system. So far i am very pleased with the system. However, i noticed the system can get very hot when watching a video or installing things via commandline. the fan will only turn on when the system is already quiet hot. although i like the system to be silent, i am willing to accept fan noise if that helps my system to stay cool. after researching online, i installed fw-fanctrl with sudo. However, when running the output is as follows:

Exception in thread Thread-1 (bindSocket):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python3.10/threading.py”, line 1016, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File “/usr/lib/python3.10/threading.py”, line 953, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File “/usr/bin/fw-fanctrl”, line 129, in bindSocket
os.remove(COMMANDS_SOCKET_FILE_PATH)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/run/fw-fanctrl/.fw-fanctrl.commands.sock’
Error getting I/O privilege: Operation not permitted
Cannot find I2C adapter
Unable to establish host communication
Couldn’t find EC
etc…

so, after google these errors, i assume fw-fanctrl cannot operate since ectool is not installed correctly because of not being super user when installing, OR secure boot was not off. I am 100% sure i used sudo, since i followed the fw-fanctrl github guide. Moreover, when installing ubuntu the very first time after booting up after i installed the ram and ssd, i had to change a setting in secure boot, otherwise a blue screen kept popping up telling me someting was not secure. so after changing a setting in secure boot i was able to select the ubuntu 22.04 iso. Therefore i am almost certain secure boot is off and fw-fanctrl is installed while being superuser. However, since fw-fanctrl does not work i must have done something wrong. Can anyone please help me with this issue?

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Maybe try to address the permission error first? not really familiar with ectool compilation, but from the error it looks like you need to be root.

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what you mean with permission error? when running fw-fanctrl i got the error as showed as above. maybe i do not understand your question?

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This is the “permission error”.

You installed fw-fanctrl with sudo, but how did you run it? The fw-fanctrl repo install script creates a systemd service, and automatically enable and start it; you can see how it’s doing with sudo systemctl status fw-fanctrl. (Maybe you already did that, just good to be clear.)

Deleting the socket file is just to clean up from from a previously run instance, if this has never run before, that’s expected. Maybe the problem is that ectool isn’t finding the EC. AMD Framework laptops need an up-to-date ectool from dhowett’s repo, and that ectool needs to be run with sudo, and secure-boot needs to be disabled for it to work.

I don’t use fw-fanctrl so I’m not sure exactly what version of ectool fw-fanctrl installs. I installed and used ectool manually. It’s possible to directly configure the ec to spin up the fan much more promptly when the CPU heats up, using the “thermalset” command; I put this in a script that runs at bootup. Search these forums for “ectool thermalset” for more details/tips if interested.

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