ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS Seeing Linux Sensors Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS Seeing Linux Sensors Support

For those with the ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS as a ~$230 USD AM5 motherboard for Ryzen 7000/9000 series processors, this desktop motherboard is seeing support tacked onto the asus-ec-sensors hardware monitoring driver so you can enjoy working sensor readings under Linux...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-X670E-PLUS-EC-Sensors

[iPat]

Wow, i was looking for this kind of support to select between MSI or ASUS, now its more in favour of Asus <3

[Kjell]

Will this improve performance in any shape or form, is it just for monitoring?

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Will this improve performance in any shape or form, is it just for monitoring?

Just monitoring. Although having more monitoring data may encourage you to play with some performance knobs.

[Laughing1]

coreboot?

[t2q9xj5ssfc6]

Will there be support for the ROG STRIX X670E-A GAMING WIFI?

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

coreboot?

Hahahahahahahaha. Oh sorry, you were hopeful. Coreboot is basically non-existent for AMD motherboards outside of Chromebooks. Even on the Intel side, Coreboot support is rare as hell for modern motherboards with the exception of a few of the smaller Linux OEMs like System76 and Star Labs. And I did plan on all the "Ha"s before I saw your wonderfully fitting username .

[Adriano ML]

I'm curious to know if the kernel module responsible for this gets loaded automatically when such a motherboard is preset. A lot of these sensors/monitoring require extra configuration from the user.

[Peniacorada]

I'm on Nobara 41 (a fedora derivative). I have this motherboard, and I found annoying the case fans to be running too high in speed even the system being idle (I like to study during night, and I prefer a silent setup). The fan management was working OK on Windows, so I thought some tinkering could improve this behaviour.

The first thing I did was to perform a quick search for the Nuvoton chip in our motherboard. As easy as googling "nct6779d linux"
I found this: https://github.com/killghost/nct6775

Then I checked the entries in /lib/modules/6.12.8-201.fsync.fc41.x86_64/kernel/drivers/hwmon/

And there were nct6775.ko.xz, nct6775-core.ko.xz and nct6775-i2c.ko.xz.

So I've tried:

sudo modprobe -v nct6775

Being the output:

insmod /lib/modules/6.12.8-201.fsync.fc41.x86_64/kernel/drivers/hwmon/hwmon-vid.ko.xz
insmod /lib/modules/6.12.8-201.fsync.fc41.x86_64/kernel/drivers/hwmon/nct6775-core.ko.xz
insmod /lib/modules/6.12.8-201.fsync.fc41.x86_64/kernel/drivers/hwmon/nct6775.ko.xz

After doing this, the output for

sensors

was quite complete, reporting a good bunch of information for temperatures and fan speeds.

So I added nct6775 to the modules to load on boot:

sudo echo nct6775 | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/nct6775.conf

Now that the reported info was nice, I installed a nice app to control the fan speeds (there are installation options for most distros): https://gitlab.com/coolercontrol/coolercontrol

This app allows defining some modes and profiles. So you can control fan speed, or even LEDs lightning setup in the motherboard. Now I have a silent PC during nights. I found profile and function management a bit complex, tho. But still, it works.