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🌀 Fan control for ASUS devices running Linux.

asus-fan-control

Fan control for ASUS devices running Linux.

In default, some ASUS devices running Linux control their system fans inappropriately. Typical symptoms include:

• Running fans even when not under any load
• Not running fans under load appropriately
• Spinning up fans in short performance peaks

Asus-fan-control solves the problems above and even more. Tested devices with links to their first testers:

ASUS VivoBook	ASUS ZenBook	ASUS ROG	Others
N580VD	UX310UA	G752VL	B9440UA
S530UA	UX360UAK	GL502VSK	FX505GM
X507UF	UX410UA	GL553VD	FX553VD
X510UA	UX410UQ	GL553VE
X512FA	UX430UA	GL702VSK
X542UF	UX430UN

Your device is not in the table yet? Take a look at contributing.md file and you can easily add it yourself.

Table of Contents

• Install
  • Dependencies
  • Using GitPack
  • From AUR
• Usage
  • Custom Temperatures
  • GUI
• Useful Resources

Install

Dependencies

• systemd suite
• acpi_call module (see below)

Using GitPack

Asus-fan-control supports GitPack. Global installation/update:

sudo gitpack install github.com/dominiksalvet/asus-fan-control

If your system has APT, GitPack will install acpi_call automatically.

From AUR

We have an AUR package available. Global installation/update:

mkdir -p /tmp/asus-fan-control/ && cd /tmp/asus-fan-control/ &&
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/asus-fan-control.git . &&
sudo makepkg -si

For AUR installations, enable running asus-fan-control automatically:

sudo systemctl enable afc

Usage

Asus-fan-control does not run in the background (i.e., it is not a daemon process). It is executed automatically whenever necessary (e.g., on OS boots) to keep the effect of a permanent change. It is also possible to invoke it manually as shown below:

sudo asus-fan-control

It uses custom temperatures if previously set, otherwise the default temperatures are used.

Custom Temperatures

The fan speed policy is usually defined by 8 increasing numbers representing temperature boundaries in degrees Celsius between individual fan speed levels. E.g., UX430UA's default temperatures are 55 60 62 65 68 72 76 80 as shown:

Speed level	Temperature (C°)
0 (off)	54 and less
1	55 to 59
2	60 to 61
3	62 to 64
4	65 to 67
5	68 to 71
6	72 to 75
7	76 to 79
8 (max)	80 and more

To use your custom temperatures, use the set-temps command. For example:

sudo asus-fan-control set-temps 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80

GUI

Did you know that asus-fan-control has a graphical user interface extension? Visit afc-gui for more details.

Useful Resources

• support.md – questions, answers, help
• contributing.md – get involved, suggestions, bug reports
• license – author, license text