Nvidia Driver - Fan Control

[TheBigAmbulance]

I've loaded my video drivers into Lucid just fine (thanks to dibl!!)

When I look at the Nvidia configuration utility, the GPU is running at 68 degrees. That is awfully hot. The fans are running very idle.

Is there a way to control the fans, or let them run a bit faster?

Here is my xorg.conf file:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 256.53 (buildmeister@builder97.nvidia.com) Fri Aug 27 20:55:01 PDT 2010

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder62) Tue Jan 6 09:43:54 PST 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout0"
  Screen   0 "Screen0" 0 0
  InputDevice  "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
  Option     "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load      "dbe"
  Load      "extmod"
  Load      "type1"
  Load      "freetype"
  Load      "dri"
  Load      "GLcore"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier   "Mouse0"
  Driver     "mouse"
  Option     "Protocol" "auto"
  Option     "Device" "/dev/psaux"
  Option     "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
  Option     "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

	# generated from default
  Identifier   "Keyboard0"
  Driver     "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier   "Monitor0"
  VendorName   "Unknown"
  ModelName   "SceptreX20WG-Naga"
  HorizSync    30.0 - 81.0
  VertRefresh   40.0 - 76.0
  Option     "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier   "Device0"
  Driver     "nvidia"
  VendorName   "NVIDIA Corporation"
  BoardName   "GeForce 8800 GTS"
  Option     "sli" "auto"
  BusID     "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier   "Device1"
  Driver     "nvidia"
  VendorName   "NVIDIA Corporation"
  BoardName   "GeForce 8800 GTS"
  Option     "sli" "auto"
  BusID     "PCI:5:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier   "Screen0"
  Device     "Device0"
  Monitor    "Monitor0"
  DefaultDepth  24
  Option     "SLI" "On"
  Option     "TwinView" "0"
  Option     "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
  SubSection   "Display"
    Depth    24
  EndSubSection
EndSection

[oshunluvr]

Re: Nvidia Driver - Fan Control

If you enable coolbits

Section Device
...
Option "Coolbits" "1"
...


You should be able to see your fan speed in nvidia-settings. You used to control fanspeed with nvclock but I'm not sure now. I went fully water cooled!