Not ideal. Seems the fan is not kicking in soon enough
I dont know anything about fan control?
or
Is the fan inefficient… ie covered in dust or slow?
I will try and replicate your result in my desktop… see what normal is?
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Guess I will have to open and check it. If it is clean, maybe getting a new fan will fix it.
I monitored in Solus Budgie for a bit and it was running about 10 degrees higher. Stayed at around 53 C - 57 C.
I will monitor for today in Solus, but so far, AntiX seems to keep it the lowest.
Thanks,
Sheila
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Because it has fewer daemons running.
All these so called services consume CPU time even when idle.
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/control-fan-speed
There are cpu fans and case fans. My desktop has both. Not sure what your laptop will have?
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My desktop starts at 42deg C,
I give it something to do, and it rises to 54 deg C, then falls again when the job is over.
That may give you some idea what ‘normal’ is, although a desktop will cool better than a laptop.
It was a warm day ( 28 deg C) … today it is 36 deg C outside. Staying inside today.
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Thanks @nevj. The laptop is a 2012 and I checked, but most then only had one fan. It’s about $10 USD to replace, but I have a 2006 Toshiba, I might see if it works in it (mainly the screw holes vary in location). I do intend to open it up and check for dust and connection, since I don’t think it has been cleaned out since I removed Windows over a year ago and installed an SSD in it.
So far, it idles at about 48 C with Firefox minimized (3 tabs) and Thunderbird mail app minimized. Using those two actively, it goes to about 54 C with an occasional spike to 60 C, but have not seen it go over that yet.
As far as I’m concerned, I got the sensors working and conky showing temps and figure it does not have fan control since that did not work.
Now I am testing out an old Acer 2009 model single core 1.6 ghz processor with AMD Athalon. It was given to me when someone thought it was unusable back in 2018 (Windows Vista). I had previously tried Kubuntu, but it was pretty slow, and failed to upgrade. So am installing AntiX on it as well.
Sheila
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There is an xfce-sensor-plugin. Not much use in Antix with IceWM, but it works in my Void/Xfce. You can get all the cores with it.
Void it not a bad old laptop option … they have 32 bit release.
or, try Antix-base instead of Antix-full
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I followed your advice but when i typed:
sudo modinfo
i got the following message:
modinfo:ERROR: missing module or filename
I also tried:
sudo modprobe
and i also got: modprobe:ERROR:missing parameters. See -h
How do i go from here?I need those modules.
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Read the man pages for modinfo and modprobe
Its usage is
modinfo <modulename>
So you need to find the modulename first.
That is why I suggested searching with google
The other way is to look in /lib/modules where all the modules are stored… you will have to search down the directory tree to find it in there.
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Hi Neville, 
Right. That´s the beauty of conky. It makes it easy to experiment with different settings. Once conkyrc is saved the output immediately adapts to it.
Cheers from Rosika 
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Hi Sheila,
You can add the relevant line elsewehere, if you wish.
I just added it to the end because it was the last item I added.
Just check with sensors | grep -E 'Core|fan2'.
That´s the way I do it. Well, it adds fan speed as well. No need to worry about that.
With me it looks like this:
sensors | grep -E 'Core|fan2'
fan2: 1580 RPM (min = 43 RPM)
Core 0: +33.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 1: +29.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Hmm, I wonder:
If the syntax is correct is should work.
@nevj has confirmed it works with him as well.
Many greetings from Rosika
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Why fan2? Do you have 2 fans?
Update:
Mine only shows one fan
$ sensors
amdgpu-pci-0300
Adapter: PCI adapter
vddgfx: 6.00 mV
fan1: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM, max = 4000 RPM)
edge: +35.0°C (crit = +105.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)
(emerg = +110.0°C)
junction: +36.0°C (crit = +105.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)
(emerg = +110.0°C)
mem: +36.0°C (crit = +105.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)
(emerg = +110.0°C)
PPT: 2.00 W (cap = 43.00 W)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +39.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 0: +39.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 1: +37.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 2: +37.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 3: +36.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 4: +36.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 5: +38.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
I guess that is the CPU-fan, and it is idle?
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Of course she has many fans, we all like her … ha ha ha…
Just check facebook !
Sorry could not resist the play on words, too much christmas wine.
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Hi Neville,
Beats me. No idea why it is called “fan2”.
I have one fan only, like you.
Here´s the output of sensors on my system (Lenovo-H520e) regarding fans:
sensors | grep fan
fan2: 1630 RPM (min = 43 RPM)
Strange nomenclature. 
But why does sensors report your fan as being idle?
It surely isn´t idle as the temperature of your CPU seems alright.
Cheers from Rosika
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Hi Rosika,
Thanks for checking
I have 2 physical fans, one on the case, and one over the CPU
When I did the test, I could hear the case fan running, but the CPU fan was not running (I can hear it when it starts).
I need to redo the test while a big job is running and I can hear the CPU fan
Regards
Neville
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Hi Neville,
thanks for the feedback.
So you do have 2 fans. I see.
Yes, I think a further test might be in order. Let´s see what you come up with.
Many greetings from Rosika
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Hi Rosika,
I ran a big compute job in R.
Here is the sensors output while it was running… I could hear the CPU fan running this time
sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +59.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 0: +58.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 1: +56.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 2: +55.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 3: +55.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 4: +56.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
Core 5: +59.0°C (high = +81.0°C, crit = +91.0°C)
amdgpu-pci-0300
Adapter: PCI adapter
vddgfx: 712.00 mV
fan1: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM, max = 4000 RPM)
edge: +35.0°C (crit = +105.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)
(emerg = +110.0°C)
junction: +35.0°C (crit = +105.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)
(emerg = +110.0°C)
mem: +32.0°C (crit = +105.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)
(emerg = +110.0°C)
PPT: 2.00 W (cap = 43.00 W)
Still no fan??
Then I noticed something… that ‘fan1’ line is under `amdgpu-pci-0300’… ie it is the fan on the AMD graphics card (RX6400)… my graphics card does have a fan… I have never heard it run… I dont do intesive graphics.
Notice the temperatures are up to 55-59 deg C while it is computing.
That is expected.
So now a new question… why does sensors only report the GPU fan?
Regards
Neville
PS
In /etc/sensors3.conf I find
# Fans
label fan1 "CPU Fan"
label fan2 "System FAN2"
label fan3 "System FAN3"
label fan4 "System FAN4"
label fan7 "PSU Fan"
So according to that ‘fan1’ is a CPU fan… I dont believe it?
I think I conclude that my CPU and case fans do not have a detection chip… so it only detects the GPU fan and calls it fan1.
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Hi Neville,
thanks for the detailed description of your procedure. 
O.K., that´s good to hear.
Yes, you´re certainly right. I would´ve thought so as well.
Out of curiosity I looked at the output of cat /etc/sensors3.conf | grep fan on my system:
cat /etc/sensors3.conf | grep fan
label fan1 "PSU Fan"
label fan2 "CPU Fan"
label fan3 "System FAN2"
label fan4 "System FAN3"
label fan5 "System FAN4"
label fan1 "CPU Fan"
label fan2 "System FAN2"
label fan3 "System FAN3"
label fan4 "System FAN4"
label fan7 "PSU Fan"
I have just one fan and it´s reported by sensors as fan2.
So it´s a CPU fan, like I thought it would be.
So with you fan1 is a CPU fan.
With me fan2 is the CPU fan.
Seems the nomenclature is dependent on the physical setup of the system?
This seems to be the conclusion I would draw as well.
Many greetings from Rosika
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Hi Rosika,
One last thought… I may require some kernel module(s)
Have you seen
man sensor-detect
I am wary of its warning message.
There has to be a safe way to find out what modules are required.?
If there is no safe way, I can do without fan info, temperature is enough.
Regards
Neville
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Thinking of the question of improving our site to attract more visitors
What is p-w-m ?
I am sure you know but is that enough ?
I actually have no idea. Maybe that is why the question is unresolved?
Good point… dont use uncommon abbreviations in titles… spell it out.
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