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mbpfan could not detect any fan. Please contact the developer. #266

@kdknive

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@kdknive

Hi, i just installed mbpfan on my Macbook8.1 2015 running LMDE 6, but it's showing "mbpfan could not detect any fan. Please contact the developer.".

Here's the full log i got from sudo mbpfan -fv

mbpfan 2.3.0 starting up
Writing a new .pid file with value 2927 at: /var/run/mbpfan.pid
Successfully written a new .pid file with value 2927 at: /var/run/mbpfan.pid
Using new sensor path for kernel >= 3.15.0 or some CentOS versions with kernel 3.10.0 
Found hwmon path at /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon3/temp
Found 3 sensors
Found 0 fans
mbpfan could not detect any fan. Please contact the developer.

Here's my system info just in case:

System:
  Host: Max Kernel: 6.1.0-26-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon
    v: 6.2.9 Distro: LMDE 6 Faye
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBook8,1 v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Apple model: Mac-BE0E8AC46FE800CC v: MacBook8,1
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Apple v: 481.0.0.0.0 date: 01/12/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 11.9 Wh (43.4%) condition: 27.4/40.3 Wh (68.1%)
    volts: 8.0 min: 7.6
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core M-5Y51 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1245 min/max: 500/2600 cores: 1: 1194 2: 1287 3: 1225
    4: 1274
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5300 driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
    resolution: 2304x1440~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5300 (BDW
    GT2)
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-3: Broadcom 720p FaceTime HD Camera driver: N/A
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-26-amd64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM4350 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: brcmfmac
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: a8:66:7f:1f:07:86
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.92 GiB used: 10.39 GiB (2.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Apple model: SSD AP0512H size: 465.92 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 449.37 GiB used: 10.39 GiB (2.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 285.3 MiB used: 5.8 MiB (2.0%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.01 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 78.0 C pch: 65.5 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 214 Uptime: 18m Memory: 7.66 GiB used: 2.24 GiB (29.3%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.26

Any developer here that could help?

Thanks

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