On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de> wrote: > On Freitag 12 Dezember 2008, James wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann <at> tu-clausthal.de> writes: >> > > Any techniques, available in Gentoo, to monitor the temperature >> > > of and of the new video cards? >> > >> > with ati: aticonfig --odgt >> >> I have this installed: >> x11-drivers/ati-drivers >> Installed versions: 8.552-r2 >> >> So I get: >> >> fglrxinfo >> display: :0.0 screen: 0 >> OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. >> OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1900 Series >> OpenGL version string: 2.1.8201 Release >> >> >> aticonfig --lsa >> * 0. 01:00.0 Radeon X1900 Series >> * - Default adapter >> >> aticonfig --odgt >> ERROR - Get temperature failed for the Default Adapter - Radeon X1900 >> Series >> >> >> >> So my guess is I missed something in the kernel config? > > no, that has nothing to do with the kernel. > Maybe you need to turn on overdrive first. > Try aticonfig --od-enable and then --odgc > >
And for Nvidia I think you need: Option "Coolbits" "1" In your Xorg.conf (I think it enables the temperature monitoring and overclocking stuff in nvidia-settings)
