http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=902776 Bug ID: 902776 Summary: Lenovo G50-70 Fans don't work at all Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 13.1 Version: Final Hardware: x86-64 OS: openSUSE 13.1 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel Assignee: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: erbenton@comcast.net QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Build Identifier: The lenovo G50-70 fan never comes on so any workload above idle cause overheating. I tried setting /proc/acpi/ibm/fan but it doesnt show the fan speed at anything other than 0 I'm using this kernel: Linux erb3 3.17.1-2.g5c4d099-default #1 SMP Sat Oct 18 23:36:23 UTC 2014 (5c4d099) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan status: enabled speed: 0 level: 7 commands: level <level> (<level> is 0-7, auto, disengaged, full-speed) commands: enable, disable commands: watchdog <timeout> (<timeout> is 0 (off), 1-120 (seconds)) lsmod shows thinkpad_acpi x86_pkg_temp_thermal loaded # ls /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/ cooling_device0 cooling_device1 cooling_device2 cooling_device3 cooling_device4 thermal_zone0 # for((i=0; i<5; i++)); do cat /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/cooling_device${i}/cur_state; done 0 0 0 0 -1 changing the above values has no effect. /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp shows the correct temperature (47000 at idle at the moment) Here is some info on the HW: description: Notebook product: 20351 (LENOVO_MT_20351_BU_idea_FM_Lenovo G50-70) vendor: LENOVO version: Lenovo G50-70 serial: 1036401201536 width: 64 bits description: Motherboard product: Lancer 5A2 vendor: LENOVO version: 31900058WIN description: BIOS vendor: LENOVO version: 9ACN26WW (This is the latest bios as far as i know) date: 07/31/2014 description: CPU product: Core i7 (To Be Filled By O.E.M.) vendor: Intel Corp. version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install opensuse 13,1 2. install & boot opensuse 17.1 kernel 3. observe fan speed (0 always) even with temperature at 80C+ Actual Results: fan is not running at all Expected Results: fan should be on and responding to cpu temperature -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.