# Radxa Rock5B: Looking at the thermal threshold to kick in the fan

**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/radxa-rock5b-looking-at-the-thermal-threshold-to-kick-in-the-fan/16529
**Category:** Troubleshooting
**Created:** [11 April 2023 02:26 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/radxa-rock5b-looking-at-the-thermal-threshold-to-kick-in-the-fan/16529 "2023-04-11T02:26:11Z")
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### Author: ![Suisse00](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/suisse00/32/3878_2.png) [@Suisse00](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Suisse00)
#### Post date: [11 April 2023 02:26 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/radxa-rock5b-looking-at-the-thermal-threshold-to-kick-in-the-fan/16529/1 "2023-04-11T02:26:11Z")

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Hi, I got a Rock5B from Radxa and installed dietpi on it.

I was testing that everything is working on it which include checking the fan.

TLDR: Couldn’t turn on the fan by heating up to 72 degree celcius (\>60 for at least 10 minutes). I confirmed the fan is working. Trying to figure out if the support for that board is completely missing or if it could be just a bad configuration for my board. But I have no clue where to look for.

#### Required Information

G\_DIETPI\_VERSION\_CORE=8  
G\_DIETPI\_VERSION\_SUB=16  
G\_DIETPI\_VERSION\_RC=2  
G\_GITBRANCH=‘master’  
G\_GITOWNER=‘MichaIng’

bullseye

Linux rock5b 5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588 #23.02.2 SMP Fri Feb 17 23:59:20 UTC 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Fresh install without any additional softwares yet.

#### Extra details (Details of all I know)

I turned the board on and… no fan. Well, the CPU is cold (30 degree celcius) so it may be in a quiet zone.

I started the stresstest and end up at 49 degree celcius. Still no fan. Fine, let try something else. I was able to heat it up up to 62 degree. Still nothing. I’m currently writing this post (slowly) while it is at 62 and no trace of the fan running.

I tested the fan with external power, it is good.  
I looked online to find the GPIO to toggle manually (16) (Technically: PWM1\_M0 or GPIO0-C0) and yep, it start running. So the connection are fine.

I found [DietPi/.meta/dietpi-fan\_control at db683273c34f39b2d55e5927a5c9c9b5c1a0acd4 · MichaIng/DietPi · GitHub](https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/blob/db683273c34f39b2d55e5927a5c9c9b5c1a0acd4/.meta/dietpi-fan_control) which list a file in /boot/dietpi/.dietpi-fan\_control. I also found a path to /usr/bin/dietpi-fan\_control ( Post with id 14337, post number 8 ). On my end, I couldn’t find anything. A post of around nthe same time as the post with id 14337) post said it may be for the PI and was still in development. I also tried to find some other path in /sys/devices/platform/ without finding anything close to.

I found /sys/class/thermal/ but I’m not yet in a state to say anything about it yet. It list 4 devices and 7 zones. (4 devices match the number of cores of the CPU)

I also found [https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/rockchip-thermal.txt](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/rockchip-thermal.txt) which talk about some configuration. But I have no clue where it could be if it exists.

One thing I saw in the log:  
[13.382647] rockchip-thermal fec00000.tsadc: Missing rockchip,grf property  
[13.383210] rockchip-thermal fec00000.tsadc: tsadc is probed successfully!

To finish, the stresstest is still going on: 68 degree and no fan.

EDIT: I also found, in /boot/config-5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588, some configuration aroudn FAN that “aren’t set”:

CONFIG\_SENSORS\_GPIO\_FAN  
CONFIG\_SENSORS\_PWM\_FAN  
CONFIG\_REGULATOR\_FAN53555