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How to deal with a potentially broken hardware fan not accessible for control? The fan only reacts to hardware temperature changes
I have a second hand laptop, Asus Zenbook UX3402ZA, running 6.18.9-arch1-2 btw. The fan seems to be controlled by hardware, having only two states - high or off and in the high state it is really loud, so I'd like to be able to switch it on only at high enough temperatures or allow lower power into the fan (currently it turns on at around 40 Celsius, so almost all the time). The status of the fan is also not seen in BIOS, there it does not pass the fan test. I have tried the different packages claiming to allow software fan control, none of them seemed to have an effect. Lately, reading up on
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