Alright, I made an account just to post and hope that my frustrations might get resolved.
I’ve been a Linux user for years, been using Fedora for at least three years now. I recently (1 year ago) got a laptop from a bet, an ASUS ROG TUF A16 2024, and installed F38 i3 on it since I already had a USB of it prepped. Things were fine, working as intended, but things went wrong with nvidia drivers and led me to F42 KDE after hopping around a bit through other distros.
Now, the reason for all of this: the fans don’t work on F42. I get a tiny bit of fan spin when the temps skyrocket, but otherwise they are disabled. Not even in BIOS are they this low-power, but this is sadly one of those restricted laptops that does not allow you to configure anything manually. The fans are controlled through ACPI, but I cannot fathom what changed between revisions to just make them stop functioning correctly.
To add to the weirdness, it was either Bazzite or Nomura(?), that one distro mod made by GloriousEggroll, where the fans not only functioned properly, but they were aggressive. The distros themselves had too many issues to work around, so I went back to vanilla Fedora, but still. Interesting.
I have tried using lm_sensors, I’ve tried the various cooler/tuning programs like fancontrol, nbfc, asusctrl, coolero, etc., but no results; they will show thermals at best, but no controls for the fans. I am at a loss. I really hate the idea of having to switch back to i3 and X11, but between the general instability and infancy of Hypr and Sway, and the complete mess that is fan usage and control, I can only hope that swapping back to X11 and the i3 fork will help.
Thanks for reading, any ideas?
E1: My model number is something like FA607PI, for reference.
E2: Here’s an Amazon link to the laptop that I bought. Not sponsored nor endorsed.