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A setup guide for linux on dell g7 7790. It took me 9 months to finally solve overheating and discrete graphic card issues on dell g7 7790 as there are not very good tutorial, thought it would be helpful to save other people this headache.

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dellG7-7790-LinuxSetup

This script is a automatic setup script to start fan control on linux at dell g7 7790 device. just run setupFreqAndFan.sh to setup the fan control on dell g7 and get the fan run at around 2000rpm, it will be overrided by the i8k profile after a while though. You probably need to run the script each time you reboot. Your can change the file frequency.sh to limit maximum frequency.

Before use

Before running the script please follow the following steps to setup linux on dell g7

  • Setup i8kctl: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/finally-got-my-fans-working-manually-on-dell-xps-13-9370/90548
  • Setup discrete graphic card: first install nvidia driver on your device and then open file /lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-kms.conf, delete or comment out the line "options nvidia-drm modeset=1" to enable kernel mode driver if you does not find nvidia kernel mode driver loading using dmesg, it solves the nvidia grapic card running hot and frame loss issue.
  • make the dell bios fan control that disables bios fan control using make
  • random system freeze issue: this is usually cause by a buggy iwlwifi driver, download a new firmware can solve this issue if you encounter this.
  • Make i8kctl loads at boot time: add line line i8k to /etc/modules
  • You can also messing with fan curve by adjusting this file /etc/i8kmon.conf
  • The settings are tested in ubuntu 19.10
acknowledgement:

TomFreudenberg: dell-bios-fan-control https://github.com/TomFreudenberg/dell-bios-fan-control

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A setup guide for linux on dell g7 7790. It took me 9 months to finally solve overheating and discrete graphic card issues on dell g7 7790 as there are not very good tutorial, thought it would be helpful to save other people this headache.

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