2015-11-25, 06:06
(2015-11-25, 00:44)denz13 Wrote: Sorry to hijack this post, I was just about to create a new post relating to fan speed. The fan on my Asus Chromebox running Kodibuntu 14.2, is constantly on despite CPU utilisation of around 15-20% idle. I'm unable to advise on the CPU temperatures as they show as ? in Kodi however, I'm not sure if that's normal? But the Chromebox itself isn't hot.
Is this possibly relating to firmware version?
absolutely nothing to do with the firmware, it's linux kernel bug, as described in wiki. patches are available to fix if you're comfortable compiling your own kernel. There's also a workaround posted for the mainline OpenELEC builds; the Intel-EGL builds already have the necessary kernel patches compiled in, so no workaround needed.
(2015-11-25, 01:27)Soli Wrote: The fan is always on at the minimum speed. You can display the temps by issuing "sensors" in a shell.
To show the temps in Kodi, add this to advancedsettings.xml
<cputempcommand>sensors|sed -ne "s/Core 0: \+[-+]\([0-9]\+\).*/\1 C/p"</cputempcommand>
<gputempcommand>sensors|sed -ne "s/temp1: \+[-+]\([0-9]\+\).*/\1 C/p"</gputempcommand>
actually, the fan is completely off until the CPU/GPU temp reaches 40°C, then it runs at min speed
