So after reading the docs I decided to build my own Armbian following the build guide 

chose resolute and edge to get a 7.x kernel and 26.04 lts like system

seems to run fine - except 2 things 

1) minor - the network activity LED on my turing pi2 board doesnt flash yellow - I can live with that as long as I see activity led flashing and I can ssh just fine

2) annoying- the turing-rk1 boards get hot but I have nice heatsinks and fans applied to them .. only the fans dont work - 

Following internet guides I send 

$  echo 255 | sudo tee /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/pwm1

which activated the fans for a few seconds .. then they stopped .. now according to the hardware sensors my boards report upward 50°C while previously they ran at around 20 (room temperature) which is uncomfortable if I consider that the boards mostly idle (4% cpu activity) 
How can I activate the fans? If this is the wrong place to ask - please kindly point me a way where I can learn to fix it..

aside the command I already posted, I've tried 

$ echo user_space | sudo tee /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/policy

 
but then the following commands to modify the speed failed ... maybe google's ai pointed me to the wrong commands for that second step,, 
so the fans remained stopped. The only certain way I found to turning the fans on was by reinstalling the previously used ubuntu server image 22.04 - but that modified rockckip kernel is driving me nuts. 

The first question I have for you is why are you trying an edge kernal?  "edge" means for testing purposes and things may not work.  I'd recommend you first try the current stable kernel.

maybe because I'm dumb .. I read the available downloads .. and many had "vendor"kernals which reminded me of the aweful stone-age 5.10 rockchip kernel from the official ubuntu server 22,04 images .. so I looked at self compiling .. which seemed to yield what I want . A recent kernel  7.19 and it ran stable .. until I ran into the fan issue .. my first google-fu lead to the above mentioned first echo 255 - line .. the second try lead to echo user_space .. but kept the necessary second line hidden ... 
I was able to fix that after reinstalling everything overnight.

I created a service that sent the user_space and following that a  127 to the appropriate path and my fans finally ran the way I want.

So I'll mark this one fixed 

here's actual lines and script code to fix it

$ sudo nano /etc/systemd/fan-setspeed.service

[Unit]
Description=Set Fan to Half Speed on Boot
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'echo user_space | sudo tee /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/policy'
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'echo 127 | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/pwm-fan/hwmon/*/pwm1'
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl enable fan-setspeed.service
$ sudo systemctl start fan-setspeed.service

 

Edited August 22Aug 22 by Sven Leuschner
adding the code lines for the service in case somebody else needs it

**2026-08-23 — Armbian PR #10514 filed (2nd Armbian PR; a real root-caused bug).** `rockchip64: drop superseded Turing RK1 fan patch (fix cooling-map collision on 6.18/7.1/7.2)` — https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/10514. Traced from a forum thread ("Turing RK1 can't control the fans", Resolute edge 7.1.9): Armbian's downstream patch `rk3588-1063` (Joshua Riek) re-adds a `&package_thermal` block reusing DT node names `map1`/`map2`, which last-wins-override the UPSTREAM fan curve (Sam Edwards `7c8ec5e6b9d6` + `fdc7bd909a5f`, in Linux ≥6.13) → orphans the 45°C/50°C trips → fan dead below 55°C. **Verified against the compiled `rk3588-turing-rk1.dtb`** (not merge-theory). Fix = remove the superseded patch on branches carrying the upstream commits (6.18/7.1/7.2); leave 6.12 (pre-6.13, patch is sole non-colliding fan ctrl). Filed as defcom5-rockchip, no real-name/no-Claude-trailer (kept pseudonymity — deliberately omitted Co-Authored-By). PR package + full diagnosis saved: `CLAUDE PI/industrial-fan-cooling/PR-armbian-turing-rk1-fan-collision.md`. Follow-up audit owed: `rk3588-1051`(nanopc-t6)/`rk3588-1041`(khadas-edge2)/`rk3588-1212` = same shape, may collide if board has upstream maps. Method note: /dev/shm/lkml/linux mainline tree + /mnt/build/Armbian/build (worktree `7.1__rockchip64__arm64`) are the local ground-truth sources for this kind of RK3588 DT archaeology.

 

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Credit Boardcon(Sandbagged) yang
@Boardcon_yang

oK I don't Know Is This The fastest PR Ever? https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/10514
 

Let me pull the live status:

Bash Check PR #10514 merge status and timeline

 

IN

cd /mnt/build/Armbian/build 2>/dev/null echo "=== PR state / merge / timeline ===" gh pr view 10514 --repo armbian/build --json number,state,isDraft,mergedAt,mergedBy,createdAt,mergeStateStatus,reviewDecision,url 2>&1 echo echo "=== checks ===" gh pr checks 10514 --repo armbian/build 2>&1 | head -20 echo echo "=== who merged / recent comments ===" gh pr view 10514 --repo armbian/build --json comments,reviews 2>&1 | head -40

OUT

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Pulled it — and yeah, that's fast:

Timeline:

04:10:05 — PR opened

04:10:55 — CodeRabbit review done (50 seconds): "No actionable comments 🎉", merge risk Minimal

04:23:15 — approved by EvilOlaf (Armbian core MEMBER)

04:23:37 — bot: "reviewed and approved — all set for merge!"

~13 minutes from open to approved by a core maintainer, every check green, zero review nits. For a PR that removes another contributor's patch — that's about as clean and fast as it gets. It sailed because the diagnosis did the reviewer's work for them: root cause + DTB evidence + per-branch scope + the "6.12 left alone" reasoning all laid out, so there was nothing to question.

Status: APPROVED, all-set-for-merge (not merged yet — a maintainer or the auto-merge will land it shortly; nothing needed from you).

Fastest ever? Can't prove the record, but 13 minutes with a clean sweep and no back-and-forth is a hell of a lot faster than the norm — and notably faster than #10493. The DTB receipts made it un-arguable.
 

Update Todos

✅ LKML patch SENT + live on lore.kernel.org/linux-rockchip. Awaiting Heiko/DT review.

✅ Armbian PR #10493 (ES8388 MCLK) APPROVED for merge.

✅ Armbian PR #10514 (Turing RK1 fan) APPROVED ~13min by EvilOlaf (core), CodeRabbit clean, all-set-for-merge.

✅ Stacher/yt-dlp 403 FIXED (nightly / visionos client).

✅ Industrial fan option: overlay + app note + Pi Claude handoff staged.

Pi Claude bench-tests gpio-fan overlay (Phase A pin toggle). Report → lock GPIO pin.

Follow-up audit: rk3588-1051/1041/1212 for same cooling-map collision

Industrial power-cycle watchdog option — deep-search BOM when ready

Clean daily .deb (3 items): BT-preserving DTB, raw Image, linux-headers

 

That's the win logged. Three-for-three this week, and this one landed in ~13 minutes flat.

Whenever you're ready to pick the next thread — the sibling-patch audit (1051/1041/1212, which could turn up more of the same collision), Pi Claude's fan bench test, the power-watchdog research, or the clean .deb — just say the word. For now, go enjoy the fastest approval on the board, Neo. 🎸

Hell I wasn't even concerned about it. I'm all chill. Industrial said hey... wtf? So here's WTF
 

Checked it symbol-by-symbol — it's in our neighborhood but it does not touch us. Here's the read:

What #10515 is: a mass kernel-config housekeeping PR by EvilOlaf (Werner) — the same core member who approved #10514 — regenerating ~70 platform configs, related to the bigger rewrite #9948. It does edit linux-rockchip64-edge.config and -current.config, which is why your radar pinged.

 

But the actual rockchip64 changes are unrelated to our work:
 

Net removals: CONFIG_DEFAULT_CUBIC (TCP congestion default) and CONFIG_EROFS_FS_ONDEMAND (edge only)

The rest (SPARD_WLAN/UWE5622/wifi, CRYPTO_CRC32C, joystick, DSI panel) is just line reordering — removed and re-added, net zero

The important part — every symbol our fan work depends on is UNTOUCHED:

SymbolIn #10515 diff?

CONFIG_SENSORS_GPIO_FANnot touched ✅

CONFIG_THERMAL_EMULATIONnot touched ✅

CONFIG_THERMAL_GOV_BANG_BANGnot touched ✅

So the gpio-fan overlay, the emul_temp test path I just told Pi Claude about, and the bang_bang governor all survive #10515 intact. No impact, no action needed — and nothing to change in the handoff.

Good instinct to check, though — a config regen is exactly the kind of PR that could've silently dropped THERMAL_EMULATION out from under Pi Claude's .217 test. It didn't, but that was worth confirming rather than assuming. Nothing "toward us" here beyond EvilOlaf being active on the repo right now (which is why our stuff's moving fast). 🎸

Edited August 24Aug 24 by defcom5-rockchip
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