I wanted the same temperature/fanspeed scaling in Linux, so I decided to setup fancontrol, which is a small script that monitors temperatures and fanspeeds and sets the fan at the minimum required level to insure low noise levels. Still, I do not know if this is the problem of kernel/any driver/BIOS or how the heck the fans are/should be managed on Linux.In Windows I controlled the fanspeed on my stationary computer by using a ASUS program that read the temperatures. # Temperature thresholds: Īnyway it would be good if ANYONE from Dell replies for this as they should support Linux. # For computer with 2 fans, use a variant of this instead: # Status check timeout (seconds), override with -timeout option # Report status on stdout, override with -verbose option # Automatic fan control, override with -auto option # Run as daemon, override with -daemon option The only 'working' workaround (I wouldn't call it solution as no one from Dell responded for this problem anywhere) I've found for this is:

Here is the screenshot of psensor after 2hours of idle system. I need Linux (not in VM) for my work and it is really disturbing once the fans are started to spin even at the speed at 2k rpm and I need to be focused on my work. Could you please anybody help me to configure this fancontrol or help me to setup it with behavior as like as on Windows 10 is or make a patch for kernel/driver or whatever. I've found that setting acpi_osi=(Windows||Linux||!Wiindows 2012) on grub might help, but after various attempts and settings it did not help at all. I've tried to config it using pwmconfig which could stop and speed up the fans during the configuration, but after saving config to /etc/fancontrol it did not help at all and fans are still spinning. On the same machine on Windows 10, fans are switched off when the system is cooled down. Once the fans are started to spin, they are spinning forever even when the system is cooled down (cpu and GPU has about +30C for more than hour). I've noticed problems with fan control on Linux (I've tried many distros and kernels from 4.4 to 4.6.2, run it on nvidia or intel gpu only, but the problem is the same).

Linux fan control