I've installed a fancontrol script from the Ubuntu repository, and modified it a little because of problems I've had with it (sometimes it would act like the config is wrong when it would in fact work if it just ignored the issues, and sometimes the problem would be solved by running a modprobe command which it could actually do by itself). I've attempted to set up a script to run it as a daemon at startup, with admin privileges and all so it can modify the PWM settings, but that didn't work. When I try to run "sudo /etc/init.d/fancontrol start" it returns " * Starting fancontrol daemon... [ OK ] " but the fancontrol process isn't present, and the fans are still at full speed.
When I start it manually (sudo fancontrol), it works okay.
I've now tried to reinstall it, thereby undoing all my modifications. But the daemon problem persists.
The tutorial I used to try and get this working is this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=42737
Except I used the version from the package manager.
My fancontrol (at /usr/sbin/fancontrol) script looks like this, after being reinstalled:
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#!/bin/bash
#
# Simple script implementing a temperature dependent fan speed control
# Supported Linux kernel versions: 2.6.5 and later
#
# Version 0.70
#
# Usage: fancontrol [CONFIGFILE]
#
# Dependencies:
# bash, egrep, sed, cut, sleep, readlink, lm_sensors :)
#
# Please send any questions, comments or success stories to
# marius.reiner@hdev.de
# Thanks!
#
# For configuration instructions and warnings please see fancontrol.txt, which
# can be found in the doc/ directory or at the website mentioned above.
#
#
# Copyright 2003 Marius Reiner <marius.reiner@hdev.de>
# Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
# MA 02110-1301 USA.
#
#
PIDFILE="/var/run/fancontrol.pid"
#DEBUG=1
MAX=255
declare -i pwmval
function LoadConfig {
echo "Loading configuration from $1 ..."
if [ ! -r "$1" ]
then
echo "Error: Can't read configuration file"
exit 1
fi
# grep configuration from file
INTERVAL=`egrep '^INTERVAL=.*$' $1 | sed -e 's/INTERVAL=//g'`
DEVPATH=`egrep '^DEVPATH=.*$' $1 | sed -e 's/DEVPATH= *//g'`
DEVNAME=`egrep '^DEVNAME=.*$' $1 | sed -e 's/DEVNAME= *//g'`
FCTEMPS=`egrep '^FCTEMPS=.*$' $1 | sed -e 's/FCTEMPS=//g'`
MINTEMP=`egrep '^MINTEMP=.*$' $1 | sed -e 's/MINTEMP=//g'`
MAXTEMP=`egrep '^MAXTEMP=.*$' $1 | sed -e 's/MAXTEMP=//g'`
MINSTART=`egrep '^MINSTART=.*$' $1 | sed -e 's/MINSTART=//g'`
MINSTOP=`egrep '^MINSTOP=.*$' $1 | sed -e 's/MINSTOP=//g'`
# optional settings:
FCFANS=`egrep '^FCFANS=.*$' $1 | sed -e 's/FCFANS=//g'`
MINPWM=`egrep '^MINPWM=.*$' $1 | sed -e 's/MINPWM=//g'`
MAXPWM=`egrep '^MAXPWM=.*$' $1 | sed -e 's/MAXPWM=//g'`
# Check whether all mandatory settings are set
if [[ -z ${INTERVAL} || -z ${FCTEMPS} || -z ${MINTEMP} || -z ${MAXTEMP} || -z ${MINSTART} || -z ${MINSTOP} ]]
then
echo "Some mandatory settings missing, please check your config file!"
exit 1
fi
if [ "$INTERVAL" -le 0 ]
then
echo "Error in configuration file:"
echo "INTERVAL must be at least 1"
exit 1
fi
# write settings to arrays for easier use and print them
echo
echo "Common settings:"
echo " INTERVAL=$INTERVAL"
let fcvcount=0
for fcv in $FCTEMPS
do
if ! echo $fcv | egrep -q '='
then
echo "Error in configuration file:"
echo "FCTEMPS value is improperly formatted"
exit 1
fi
AFCPWM[$fcvcount]=`echo $fcv |cut -d'=' -f1`
AFCTEMP[$fcvcount]=`echo $fcv |cut -d'=' -f2`
AFCFAN[$fcvcount]=`echo $FCFANS |sed -e 's/ /\n/g' |egrep "${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}" |cut -d'=' -f2`
AFCMINTEMP[$fcvcount]=`echo $MINTEMP |sed -e 's/ /\n/g' |egrep "${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}" |cut -d'=' -f2`
AFCMAXTEMP[$fcvcount]=`echo $MAXTEMP |sed -e 's/ /\n/g' |egrep "${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}" |cut -d'=' -f2`
AFCMINSTART[$fcvcount]=`echo $MINSTART |sed -e 's/ /\n/g' |egrep "${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}" |cut -d'=' -f2`
AFCMINSTOP[$fcvcount]=`echo $MINSTOP |sed -e 's/ /\n/g' |egrep "${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}" |cut -d'=' -f2`
AFCMINPWM[$fcvcount]=`echo $MINPWM |sed -e 's/ /\n/g' |egrep "${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}" |cut -d'=' -f2`
[ -z "${AFCMINPWM[$fcvcount]}" ] && AFCMINPWM[$fcvcount]=0
AFCMAXPWM[$fcvcount]=`echo $MAXPWM |sed -e 's/ /\n/g' |egrep "${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}" |cut -d'=' -f2`
[ -z "${AFCMAXPWM[$fcvcount]}" ] && AFCMAXPWM[$fcvcount]=255
# verify the validity of the settings
if [ "${AFCMINTEMP[$fcvcount]}" -ge "${AFCMAXTEMP[$fcvcount]}" ]
then
echo "Error in configuration file (${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}):"
echo "MINTEMP must be less than MAXTEMP"
exit 1
fi
if [ "${AFCMAXPWM[$fcvcount]}" -gt 255 ]
then
echo "Error in configuration file (${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}):"
echo "MAXPWM must be at most 255"
exit 1
fi
if [ "${AFCMINSTOP[$fcvcount]}" -ge "${AFCMAXPWM[$fcvcount]}" ]
then
echo "Error in configuration file (${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}):"
echo "MINSTOP must be less than MAXPWM"
exit 1
fi
if [ "${AFCMINSTOP[$fcvcount]}" -lt "${AFCMINPWM[$fcvcount]}" ]
then
echo "Error in configuration file (${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}):"
echo "MINSTOP must be greater than or equal to MINPWM"
exit 1
fi
if [ "${AFCMINPWM[$fcvcount]}" -lt 0 ]
then
echo "Error in configuration file (${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}):"
echo "MINPWM must be at least 0"
exit 1
fi
echo
echo "Settings for ${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}:"
echo " Depends on ${AFCTEMP[$fcvcount]}"
echo " Controls ${AFCFAN[$fcvcount]}"
echo " MINTEMP=${AFCMINTEMP[$fcvcount]}"
echo " MAXTEMP=${AFCMAXTEMP[$fcvcount]}"
echo " MINSTART=${AFCMINSTART[$fcvcount]}"
echo " MINSTOP=${AFCMINSTOP[$fcvcount]}"
echo " MINPWM=${AFCMINPWM[$fcvcount]}"
echo " MAXPWM=${AFCMAXPWM[$fcvcount]}"
let fcvcount=fcvcount+1
done
echo
}
function DevicePath()
{
if [ -h "$1/device" ]
then
readlink -f "$1/device" | sed -e 's/^\/sys\///'
fi
}
function DeviceName()
{
if [ -r "$1/name" ]
then
cat "$1/name" | sed -e 's/[[:space:]=]/_/g'
elif [ -r "$1/device/name" ]
then
cat "$1/device/name" | sed -e 's/[[:space:]=]/_/g'
fi
}
function ValidateDevices()
{
local OLD_DEVPATH="$1" OLD_DEVNAME="$2" outdated=0
local entry device name path
for entry in $OLD_DEVPATH
do
device=`echo "$entry" | sed -e 's/=[^=]*$//'`
path=`echo "$entry" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'`
if [ "`DevicePath "$device"`" != "$path" ]
then
echo "Device path of $device has changed"
outdated=1
fi
done
for entry in $OLD_DEVNAME
do
device=`echo "$entry" | sed -e 's/=[^=]*$//'`
name=`echo "$entry" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'`
if [ "`DeviceName "$device"`" != "$name" ]
then
echo "Device name of $device has changed"
outdated=1
fi
done
return $outdated
}
# Check that all referenced sysfs files exist
function CheckFiles {
local outdated=0
let fcvcount=0
while (( $fcvcount < ${#AFCPWM[@]} )) # go through all pwm outputs
do
pwmo=${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}
if [ ! -w $pwmo ]
then
echo "Error: file $pwmo doesn't exist"
outdated=1
fi
let fcvcount=$fcvcount+1
done
let fcvcount=0
while (( $fcvcount < ${#AFCTEMP[@]} )) # go through all temp inputs
do
tsen=${AFCTEMP[$fcvcount]}
if [ ! -r $tsen ]
then
echo "Error: file $tsen doesn't exist"
outdated=1
fi
let fcvcount=$fcvcount+1
done
let fcvcount=0
while (( $fcvcount < ${#AFCFAN[@]} )) # go through all fan inputs
do
fan=${AFCFAN[$fcvcount]}
if [ ! -r $fan ]
then
echo "Error: file $fan doesn't exist"
outdated=1
fi
let fcvcount=$fcvcount+1
done
if [ $outdated -eq 1 ]
then
echo
echo "At least one referenced file is missing. Either some required kernel"
echo "modules haven't been loaded, or your configuration file is outdated."
echo "In the latter case, you should run pwmconfig again."
fi
return $outdated
}
if [ "$1" == "--check" ]
then
if [ -f "$2" ]
then
LoadConfig $2
else
LoadConfig /etc/fancontrol
fi
exit 0
fi
if [ -f "$1" ]
then
LoadConfig $1
else
LoadConfig /etc/fancontrol
fi
# Detect path to sensors
if echo "${AFCPWM[0]}" | egrep -q '^/'
then
DIR=/
elif echo "${AFCPWM[0]}" | egrep -q '^hwmon[0-9]'
then
DIR=/sys/class/hwmon
elif echo "${AFCPWM[0]}" | egrep -q '^[1-9]*[0-9]-[0-9abcdef]{4}'
then
DIR=/sys/bus/i2c/devices
else
echo "$0: Invalid path to sensors"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -d $DIR ]
then
echo $0: 'No sensors found! (did you load the necessary modules?)'
exit 1
fi
cd $DIR
# Check for configuration change
if [ -z "$DEVPATH" -o -z "$DEVNAME" ]
then
echo "Configuration is too old, please run pwmconfig again"
exit 1
fi
if ! ValidateDevices "$DEVPATH" "$DEVNAME"
then
echo "Configuration appears to be outdated, please run pwmconfig again"
exit 1
fi
CheckFiles || exit 1
if [ -f "$PIDFILE" ]
then
echo "File $PIDFILE exists, is fancontrol already running?"
exit 1
fi
echo $$ > "$PIDFILE"
# $1 = pwm file name
function pwmdisable()
{
ENABLE=${1}_enable
# No enable file? Just set to max
if [ ! -f $ENABLE ]
then
echo $MAX > $1
return 0
fi
# Try pwmN_enable=0
echo 0 > $ENABLE 2> /dev/null
if [ `cat $ENABLE` -eq 0 ]
then
# Success
return 0
fi
# It didn't work, try pwmN_enable=1 pwmN=255
echo 1 > $ENABLE 2> /dev/null
echo $MAX > $1
if [ `cat $ENABLE` -eq 1 -a `cat $1` -ge 190 ]
then
# Success
return 0
fi
# Nothing worked
echo "$ENABLE stuck to" `cat $ENABLE` >&2
return 1
}
# $1 = pwm file name
function pwmenable()
{
ENABLE=${1}_enable
if [ -f $ENABLE ]
then
echo 1 > $ENABLE 2> /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
return 1
fi
fi
echo $MAX > $1
}
function restorefans()
{
local status=$1
echo 'Aborting, restoring fans...'
let fcvcount=0
while (( $fcvcount < ${#AFCPWM[@]} )) # go through all pwm outputs
do
pwmo=${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}
pwmdisable $pwmo
let fcvcount=$fcvcount+1
done
echo 'Verify fans have returned to full speed'
rm -f "$PIDFILE"
exit $status
}
trap 'restorefans 0' SIGQUIT SIGTERM
trap 'restorefans 1' SIGHUP SIGINT
# main function
function UpdateFanSpeeds {
let fcvcount=0
while (( $fcvcount < ${#AFCPWM[@]} )) # go through all pwm outputs
do
#hopefully shorter vars will improve readability:
pwmo=${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}
tsens=${AFCTEMP[$fcvcount]}
fan=${AFCFAN[$fcvcount]}
let mint="${AFCMINTEMP[$fcvcount]}*1000"
let maxt="${AFCMAXTEMP[$fcvcount]}*1000"
minsa=${AFCMINSTART[$fcvcount]}
minso=${AFCMINSTOP[$fcvcount]}
minpwm=${AFCMINPWM[$fcvcount]}
maxpwm=${AFCMAXPWM[$fcvcount]}
read tval < ${tsens}
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "Error reading temperature from $DIR/$tsens"
restorefans 1
fi
read pwmpval < ${pwmo}
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "Error reading PWM value from $DIR/$pwmo"
restorefans 1
fi
# If fanspeed-sensor output shall be used, do it
if [[ -n ${fan} ]]
then
read fanval < ${fan}
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "Error reading Fan value from $DIR/$fan"
restorefans 1
fi
else
fanval=1 # set it to a non zero value, so the rest of the script still works
fi
# debug info
if [ "$DEBUG" != "" ]
then
echo "pwmo=$pwmo"
echo "tsens=$tsens"
echo "fan=$fan"
echo "mint=$mint"
echo "maxt=$maxt"
echo "minsa=$minsa"
echo "minso=$minso"
echo "minpwm=$minpwm"
echo "maxpwm=$maxpwm"
echo "tval=$tval"
echo "pwmpval=$pwmpval"
echo "fanval=$fanval"
fi
if (( $tval <= $mint ))
then pwmval=$minpwm # below min temp, use defined min pwm
elif (( $tval >= $maxt ))
then pwmval=$maxpwm # over max temp, use defined max pwm
else
# calculate the new value from temperature and settings
pwmval="(${tval}-${mint})*(${maxpwm}-${minso})/(${maxt}-${mint})+${minso}"
if [ $pwmpval -eq 0 -o $fanval -eq 0 ]
then # if fan was stopped start it using a safe value
echo $minsa > $pwmo
# Sleep while still handling signals
sleep 1 &
wait $!
fi
fi
echo $pwmval > $pwmo # write new value to pwm output
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "Error writing PWM value to $DIR/$pwmo"
restorefans 1
fi
if [ "$DEBUG" != "" ]
then
echo "new pwmval=$pwmval"
fi
let fcvcount=$fcvcount+1
done
}
echo 'Enabling PWM on fans...'
let fcvcount=0
while (( $fcvcount < ${#AFCPWM[@]} )) # go through all pwm outputs
do
pwmo=${AFCPWM[$fcvcount]}
pwmenable $pwmo
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "Error enabling PWM on $DIR/$pwmo"
restorefans 1
fi
let fcvcount=$fcvcount+1
done
echo 'Starting automatic fan control...'
# main loop calling the main function at specified intervals
while true
do
UpdateFanSpeeds
# Sleep while still handling signals
sleep $INTERVAL &
wait $!
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Fancontrol start script.
#
set -e
# Defaults
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/fancontrol
PIDFILE=/var/run/fancontrol.pid
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
test -f $DAEMON || exit 0
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
case "$1" in
start)
log_begin_msg "Starting fancontrol daemon..."
start-stop-daemon --start -o -q -m -b -p $PIDFILE -x $DAEMON
log_end_msg $?
;;
stop)
log_begin_msg "Stopping fancontrol daemon..."
start-stop-daemon --stop -o -q -p $PIDFILE
log_end_msg $?
;;
force-reload|restart)
sh $0 stop
sh $0 start
;;
*)
log_success_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/fancontrol {start|stop|restart|force-reload}"
log_success_msg " start - starts system-wide fancontrol service"
log_success_msg " stop - stops system-wide fancontrol service"
log_success_msg " restart, force-reload - starts a new system-wide fancontrol service"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0My system looks like this; it's a custom build:
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user@burrito-linux-desktop ~ $ inxi -Fc 0
System: Host burrito-linux-desktop Kernel 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop N/A Distro Linux Mint 12 Lisa
Machine: Mobo ASUSTeK model M4A78LT-M version Rev X.0x Bios American Megatrends version 0802 date 08/24/2010
CPU: Dual core AMD Phenom II X2 555 (-MCP-) cache 1024 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm)
Clock Speeds: (1) 3200.00 MHz (2) 3200.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: nVidia Device 1245 X.Org 1.10.4 driver nvidia Resolution 1280x1024@50.0hz
GLX Renderer GeForce GTS 450/PCI/SSE2 GLX Version 4.1.0 NVIDIA 280.13
Audio: Card-1 ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver HDA Intel Sound: ALSA v: 1.0.24
Card-2 nVidia Device 0bee driver HDA Intel
Network: Card Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver r8169
IF: eth0 state: down speed: 10 Mbps duplex: half mac: [REDACTED]
Drives: HDD Total Size: 496.1GB (36.2% used) 1: /dev/sda SAMSUNG_HM160HI 160.0GB
2: /dev/sdb WDC_WD3200BEVT 320.1GB 3: USB /dev/sdc STORAGE_DEVICE 16.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 61G used: 29G (50%) fs: ext4 ID:/boot size: 92M used: 29M (34%) fs: ext4
ID:swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0C mobo: 39.0C gpu: 42C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 3183 psu: 0 sys-1: 0 fan-2: 0 fan-3: 0
Info: Processes 164 Uptime 33 min Memory 845.4/3960.6MB Client Shell inxi 1.7.7
Thanks in advance.
