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:

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

• Install
  • Dependencies
  • Using GitPack
  • From AUR
• Usage
  • Custom Temperatures
  • GUI
• Questions
• Contributing
• License

• systemd suite
• acpi_call module (see below)
• dmidecode tool (see below)

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 and dmidecode automatically.

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

It may be a good idea to also enable running asus-fan-control automatically:

sudo systemctl enable asus-fan-control

Asus-fan-control is executed automatically whenever necessary to keep the effect of a permanent change. Nevertheless, it is 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.

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:

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

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

If you have any questions, you can find out how to get them answered in support.md file.

Do you want to contribute somehow? Then contributing.md file is here for you.

Asus-fan-control is licensed under the MIT License.