Zephyrous g14 2022 fan problems/fans not found

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my fans don’t work anymore.
After an update a week or two ago did turn on but randomly would turn off, the fix would be to restart the computer, but after a few days, and an update, that didn’t work either.

and now that i look at the inxi, it looks like my fans aren’t found?!

inxi:

  Host: simon-m-zephyrusg14-ga402rkga402rk Kernel: 5.19.1-3-MANJARO
    arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.6 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ROG Zephyrus G14 GA402RK_GA402RK
    v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: GA402RK v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: GA402RK.312 date: 05/23/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.5 Wh (64.2%) condition: 70.9/76.0 Wh (93.3%)
    volts: 15.9 min: 15.9
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP cache: L2: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2223 min/max: 1600/4934 cores: 1: 1600 2: 3300 3: 1600
    4: 3300 5: 3300 6: 1375 7: 1600 8: 3300 9: 3300 10: 1600 11: 1600 12: 3300
    13: 1600 14: 1600 15: 1600 16: 1600
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6650 XT] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-2: AMD Rembrandt [Radeon 680M] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-3: Quanta USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    unloaded: modesetting,radeon gpu: amdgpu,amdgpu resolution: 1707x1067
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6800S (dimgrey_cavefish LLVM 14.0.6 DRM
    3.47 5.19.1-3-MANJARO) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.6
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-3: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor driver: snd_pci_acp6x
  Device-4: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.1-3-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: MEDIATEK driver: mt7921e
  IF: wlp5s0 state: up mac: b4:8c:9d:5c:77:db
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: IMC Networks Wireless_Device type: USB driver: btusb
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.86 TiB used: 969.54 GiB (50.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Toshiba model: N/A size: 1.86 TiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 983.2 GiB used: 917.7 GiB (93.3%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 67.8 MiB (26.5%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 57.8 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
  GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 49.0 C device: amdgpu temp: 52.0 C fan: 0
Info:
  Processes: 485 Uptime: 1h 53m Memory: 30.6 GiB used: 4.85 GiB (15.9%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.20```
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Hi @siken,

I’d say if the laptop’s not overheating, then you don’t need to worry. Laptops switch off fans to conserve battery power, and their passsive cooling is much better than a desktop.

If you wish more advanced control, look at TLP. And the TLP UI is in the community repositories:

$ pamac search tlpui
[...]
tlpui                                                                                                                                                                                                          [Installed] 1.5.0.2-1              community
A GTK user interface for TLP written in Python

So can be installed using:

pamac install tlpui

Hope this helps!

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Hi, thanks for the tip, the fan are not turning on, even though its extremely hot, i don’t think it has registered the fans.
I don’t know how to fix that, do you have any suggestions?:slight_smile:

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Only one. Try a different kernel, perhaps 5.15 as it’s the latest LTS:

mhw-kernel --install linux515

Followed by rebooting into the new kernel.