169.07 Ubuntu 7.10 Fan at %100

[Rainmaker87]

You might try lmsensors in combination with fancontrol (it comes with lmsensors i believe), although I don't know if that would even work, maybe there is some way to force lmsensors into recognizing the fan controller on the card

[shootndrill]

It may help to compile nvclock from source instead of installing the default binaries. Following this howto, I got my 8800gt working great on Debian.

http://www.codealias.info/blog/nvidi...t_linux_driver

Updating to nvclock version 0.8beta3a did help in that it now recognizes my card, but it still can't adjust my fan speed

aria ~ # nvclock -f -F 40
Uknown Winbond vendor: ff
Error: Your card doesn't support fanspeed adjustments!

I did find a pretty equivalent solution though: I lined the cabinet my box sits in with carpet! Acoustically, it did a lot to quiet the fan. Air can still flow in and out of the computer case just fine.

[coz_]

Hey guys,
I cant find an answer to this anywhere!
I am running ubuntu hardy with the 2.6.24-15 kernel and xorg with x11/xcb
all the drivers from 10.xx and above install fine with the .run file no problems with installation but performance on an fx 5700 card is, put mildly, is crap!!
I tried to install the 9755 driver which is the best for my card in performance along with compiz fusion however it refuses to install.
I dont have any of the logs avaiable right nowk, however I am assuming this doesnt install because of the x11/xcb .
is this correct?
I s there a work around because these new drivers really suck on this card!!


coz

[jpkotta]

I'm running (K)Ubuntu 8.04 amd64. I usually just use the drivers from the repos unless something is wrong. In this case, the fan is wrong. I didn't have this problem in (X)Ubuntu 7.10, so I found the driver version from that release and installed it and the fan is OK again. I could change the fan speed with nvclock, but it's obviously much better for it to change itself. It seems like it's not changing Performance Level out of maximum (is this the same as PowerMizer?).

[jpkotta@gauss][~][0]
$ sudo nvclock -i 
-- General info --
Card: 		nVidia Geforce 7900GS
Architecture: 	NV49/G71 A2
PCI id: 	0x292
GPU clock: 	468.000 MHz
Bustype: 	PCI-Express

-- Pipeline info --
Pixel units: 5x4 (110111b)
Vertex units: 7x1 (01111111b)
HW masked units: pixel 100010b vertex 00000000b
SW masked units: pixel 001000b vertex 10000000b

-- Memory info --
Amount: 	256 MB
Type: 		256 bit DDR3
Clock: 		661.500 MHz

-- PCI-Express info --
Current Rate: 	16X
Maximum rate: 	16X

-- Sensor info --
Sensor: GPU Internal Sensor
GPU temperature: 63C
Fanspeed: 19.9%

-- VideoBios information --
Version: 05.71.22.42.04
Signon message: GeForce 7900 GT VGA BIOS
Performance level 0: gpu 450(+20)MHz/memory 660MHz/1.20V/20%
Performance level 1: gpu 500(+20)MHz/memory 690MHz/1.20V/100%
VID mask: 1
Voltage level 0: 1.20V, VID: 1

I've tried 173.14.05 (doesn't work), 169.12.? (doesn't work), and 100.14.19 (works).

[zipper]

Whats up nVidia? It's been almost 7 months now, you have released 2 new versions of the driver and the bug is still there. I know linux probably isn't a high priority and i understand that. But this is a joke. I used to recommend linux-interrested people to get a nvidia card, but these days i'm starting to wonder if thats really a good advice at all.

Anyway, i really hope someone has an idea on how to fix this, any help will be greatly appriciated.

EDIT: This issue is apparently fixed in 173.14.09 - Awesome. Still need to check if the fan speed is being changed when putting some load on the GPU.

zipper@pri:~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 169.12 Thu Feb 14 17:53:07 PST 2008
GCC version: gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)

zipper@pri:~$ nvclock -f -F auto
Error: Your card doesn't support fanspeed adjustments!
zipper@pri:~$ sudo nvclock -f -F auto
Error: Your card doesn't support fanspeed adjustments!

zipper@pri:~$ nvclock -i
-- General info --
Card: nVidia Geforce 8600GT
Architecture: G84 A2
PCI id: 0x402
GPU clock: 540.000 MHz
Bustype: PCI-Express

-- Shader info --
Clock: 1188.000 MHz
Stream units: 32 (11b)
ROP units: 8 (11b)
-- Memory info --
Amount: 256 MB
Type: 128 bit DDR3
Clock: 702.000 MHz

-- PCI-Express info --
Current Rate: 16X
Maximum rate: 16X

-- Sensor info --
Sensor: GPU Internal Sensor
GPU temperature: 43C

-- VideoBios information --
Version: 60.84.41.00.00
Signon message: ASUS EN8600GT VGA BIOS Version 60.84.41.00.AS57
Performance level 0: gpu 540MHz/shader 1188MHz/memory 700MHz/0.00V/100%
VID mask: 3
Voltage level 0: 1.20V, VID: 1
Voltage level 1: 1.32V, VID: 3

[mugginz]

Fan speed still stuck at 100% for me with the 173.14.12 drivers and Gigabyte 9800GT.

No support for fan speed adjustment under nvclock either.

[ValérianB]

Driver 173.14.12 under Ubuntu 8.04...

And the fan of my 9600GT is still at 100% and it's really noisy!!!

There's no support for fan control with nvclock.

Could Nvidia do something ! Resolve the problem and some fan control ?

I was always supporting Nvidia thanks to the great linux driver but maybe should I take a look at AMD/ATI in the future if Nvidia doesn't care anymore ?

[mugginz]

The fan speed issue for Gigabyte 9800GT is still not addressed in the 178 drivers.

I can't beleeeeeve it.

[detly]

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