Linux - Heres how to EASILY turn on the fans Nitro AN517 Laptops - (AN517-55 to be exact)

dfective
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I guess I need to do the disclaimer thing. Don't go apeshit on your registers but I did and didn't mess a thing up. These values will not damage your laptop as they are the same as the Nitrosense are sending.

This is how to EASILY turn on your fans. I pulled my hair out probing the registers. I recently had to redo this from a year ago, pulled my notes out and figured I would make a post as this one small easy to fix situation keeps people from using linux. Oh and I have the Nvidia version, 20 more FPS in linux. Go Acer.

Acer I even ***** near recoded your whole nitrosense app with animations. But never finished it because I hit a snag and decided, eh… do I really care?

  1. Head over to the NBFC fan control github. Real simple steps here. INSTALL MONO, and grab ec-probe.exe. Make you a folder and throw that windows exe in there.
  2. This is where I want to throw up the hair pulling. If anyone has tried to probe those registers using the instructions at NBFC. DO not use the standard instructions. PROBE with decimals to find the manual switch then find the other values with the regular mode. I pulled my hair out for a week and the minute I switched to decimal mode with ec-probe I literally found the manual switch in like 2 minutes. On the nitro you need to find the manual switch register. Forgive me if my terms are not correct. I have not looked at this in a year.
  3. This won't be far off from the other Nitro's I suspect.
  4. In terminal - go to your folder with ec-probe. Put this in.

Enable

sudo mono ec-probe.exe write 003 027

Turn right fan on full speed

sudo mono ec-probe.exe write 0x22 08

Turn left fan on full speed

sudo mono ec-probe.exe write 0x21 40

Everything will be kicking now. Obviously there are more values to do the rest of the jazz. Im not going to post them as I got a bunch of maybes in my notes and im not tinkering right now. You can play with it. But now your Laptop is usable. make you a real basic startup script in linux, on ubuntu i have mine in "startup application preferences".

Whatever the case, this is a real small issue keeping people from having a solid linux experience on this laptop. And mine has been rock solid. So I just want to throw that up.

Acer my Nvidia Nitro has been a dream machine on linux(popos). It did not take me much. Wish you could give the linux guys a little hug.

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