Fan speed control on High Sierra

[Ig0r]

Hello Tonymacx86 forum users!

I have a problem: the fan on my laptop is always ON. Is it possible to control fan speed depending on cpu temperature?
On Windows I used "NoteBook Fan Control" to set different speed for different temperature like:

0rpm if temp is less than 60
20% fan power when temp is 60-70
50% fan power when temp is 70-90
etc...

My CPU rarely heats up to more then 60 degrees, which means no noise from fan most of the time. I want to do the same in Hackintosh.

I use the latest RehabMan's FakeSMC + Patches and HWMonitor, but I can't control fans from it. Why?
And FYI it's impossible to control fan speed from BIOS in my laptop.

As requested I attach RehabMan_patchmatic; ioreg, "kextstat", and AppleIntelInfo are in second zip, and my Clover zip (without themes folder)

First post, hope I did everything right...

 

[RehabMan]

Hello Tonymacx86 forum users!

I have a problem: the fan on my laptop is always ON. Is it possible to control fan speed depending on cpu temperature?
On Windows I used "NoteBook Fan Control" to set different speed for different temperature like:

My CPU rarely heats up to more then 60 degrees, which means no noise from fan most of the time. I want to do the same in Hackintosh.

I use the latest RehabMan's FakeSMC + Patches and HWMonitor, but I can't control fans from it. Why?
And FYI it's impossible to control fan speed from BIOS in my laptop.

As requested I attach RehabMan_patchmatic; ioreg, "kextstat", and AppleIntelInfo are in second zip, and my Clover zip (without themes folder)

First post, hope I did everything right...

Refer to the ProBook repo for ideas on how you might implement fan control.
It is on my github (refer to my Projects link in my signature).

 

[Ig0r]

RehabMan, thank you. You have 2 ProBook-related repositories: HP-ProBook-4x30s-Fan-Reset and HP-ProBook-4x30s-DSDT-Patch.
In the second repo->patches I've found 04c_FanSpeed.txt:

Spoiler: 04c_FanSpeed.txt

#Maintained by: RehabMan for: HP Probook 4x30s/4x40s
# 04c_FanSpeed.txt

# This fan patch simply reports CPU Heatsink, Ambient, and Fan Speed.
# No manipulation of fan speed is done. You get default BIOS behavior.
# add fan readings only
into device label SMCD remove_entry;
into definitionblock code_regex . insert
begin
Device (SMCD)\n
{\n
Name (_HID, "FAN00000") // _HID: Hardware ID\n
// ACPISensors.kext configuration\n
Name (TACH, Package()\n
{\n
"System Fan", "FAN0",\n
})\n
Name (TEMP, Package()\n
{\n
"CPU Heatsink", "TCPU",\n
"Ambient", "TAMB",\n
//"Mainboard", "TSYS",\n
//"CPU Proximity", "TCPP",\n
})\n
// Actual methods to implement fan/temp readings/control\n
Method (FAN0, 0, Serialized)\n
{\n
Store (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.FRDC, Local0)\n
If (Local0) { Divide (Add(0x3C000, ShiftRight(Local0,1)), Local0,, Local0) }\n
If (LEqual (0x03C4, Local0)) { Return (Zero) }\n
Return (Local0)\n
}\n
Method (TCPU, 0, Serialized)\n
{\n
Acquire (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.ECMX, 0xFFFF)\n
Store (1, \_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.CRZN)\n
Store (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.DTMP, Local0)\n
Release (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.ECMX)\n
Return (Local0)\n
}\n
Method (TAMB, 0, Serialized)\n
{\n
Acquire (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.ECMX, 0xFFFF)\n
Store (4, \_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.CRZN)\n
Store (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.TEMP, Local0)\n
Release (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.ECMX)\n
Return (Local0)\n
}\n
}\n
end;

But obviously a patch from one laptop won't work on a different one. And I think values like:
\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.ECMX;
\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.CRZN;
etc, should be different on my laptop. But how do I find them? I'm pretty new to hackintosh world. Right now my goal is to grab fan values from hardware and control them with istat Menus.

Also, I must say I don't have a rare-hardware laptop, It's just Asus K-series. Maybe there are ready-made fixes somewhere on the net I don't know about?

 

[black.dragon74]

There you go. Place this in EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched. If you use sorted order make sure you add SSDT-FAN.aml to it.

Regards

 

[black.dragon74]

RehabMan, thank you. You have 2 ProBook-related repositories: HP-ProBook-4x30s-Fan-Reset and HP-ProBook-4x30s-DSDT-Patch.
In the second repo->patches I've found 04c_FanSpeed.txt:

Spoiler: 04c_FanSpeed.txt

#Maintained by: RehabMan for: HP Probook 4x30s/4x40s
# 04c_FanSpeed.txt

# This fan patch simply reports CPU Heatsink, Ambient, and Fan Speed.
# No manipulation of fan speed is done. You get default BIOS behavior.
# add fan readings only
into device label SMCD remove_entry;
into definitionblock code_regex . insert
begin
Device (SMCD)\n
{\n
Name (_HID, "FAN00000") // _HID: Hardware ID\n
// ACPISensors.kext configuration\n
Name (TACH, Package()\n
{\n
"System Fan", "FAN0",\n
})\n
Name (TEMP, Package()\n
{\n
"CPU Heatsink", "TCPU",\n
"Ambient", "TAMB",\n
//"Mainboard", "TSYS",\n
//"CPU Proximity", "TCPP",\n
})\n
// Actual methods to implement fan/temp readings/control\n
Method (FAN0, 0, Serialized)\n
{\n
Store (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.FRDC, Local0)\n
If (Local0) { Divide (Add(0x3C000, ShiftRight(Local0,1)), Local0,, Local0) }\n
If (LEqual (0x03C4, Local0)) { Return (Zero) }\n
Return (Local0)\n
}\n
Method (TCPU, 0, Serialized)\n
{\n
Acquire (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.ECMX, 0xFFFF)\n
Store (1, \_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.CRZN)\n
Store (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.DTMP, Local0)\n
Release (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.ECMX)\n
Return (Local0)\n
}\n
Method (TAMB, 0, Serialized)\n
{\n
Acquire (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.ECMX, 0xFFFF)\n
Store (4, \_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.CRZN)\n
Store (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.TEMP, Local0)\n
Release (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.ECMX)\n
Return (Local0)\n
}\n
}\n
end;

But obviously a patch from one laptop won't work on a different one. And I think values like:
\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.ECMX;
\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.CRZN;
etc, should be different on my laptop. But how do I find them? I'm pretty new to hackintosh world. Right now my goal is to grab fan values from hardware and control them with istat Menus.

Also, I must say I don't have a rare-hardware laptop, It's just Asus K-series. Maybe there are ready-made fixes somewhere on the net I don't know about?

Also, in my test i have found out that on ASUS laptops, temperature to fan speed ratio on macOS is similar to that on Windows.

My findings:- (Note: Max and Min values are not constant. YMMV. I was able to stress the CPU up to 46˚C)


Maximum fan RPM(2814) in macOS while running Geekbench 4 (In my case, YMMV)

Regards

 

[Ig0r]

black.dragon74, thank you! Your SSDT-FAN.aml made an interesting result - I still don't see Fan RPM in HWMonitor nor istat Menus, but I'm able to see it in HWMonitorSMC for some reason...

Update: your SSDT-FAN.aml does inject "CPU Heatsink" parameter everywhere, including HWMonitor and istat Menus. Still investigating...

 

[black.dragon74]

Please attach output of: https://github.com/black-dragon74/OSX-Debug

Regards

 

[Ig0r]

Of course:

 

[black.dragon74]

Meanwhile, try this :-

 

[black.dragon74]

Looking at your report, some general suggestions :-

Set "PluginType" to NO in config.plist>ACPI>SSDT>Generate (Not related to "fans" issue, just to prevent table load failure, "plugin-type=1" is already present in SSDT.aml)
There is no need of SSDT-DiscreteSpoof as you already have those values in config.plist
You are booting without caches (Unless debugging something specific, not recommended)
Missing Firmware Features from config.plist under SMBIOS, set these to (For MacBook Pro 12,1) :-

You are using USBInjectAll.kext but a custom SSDT for your USB configuration is not present.

According to your IOREG, Fan and Thermal Sensors are loading up fine. Update your entire FakeSMC package and boot by rebuilding caches (make sure you remove -f boot flag)

Link for FakeSMC: https://bitbucket.org/RehabMan/os-x-fakesmc-kozlek/downloads/

Also, there is no need of AsusACPIBackLightPanel.kext as you are using AppleBacklightInjector along with SSDT and patches.

Regards