https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520785
--- Comment #1 from Kadir Ersoy <[email protected]> --- DESCRIPTION There are two critical functional gaps in the current Plasma System Monitor that prevent effective hardware monitoring for NVIDIA users: 1. The NVIDIA GPU fan speed metric is completely missing from the sensor list. While other core metrics like GPU Temperature, Core Frequency, Power, and VRAM usage are working perfectly and fetched correctly via the NVML backend, the fan speed sensor is entirely absent from the available sensors list. 2. Plasma 6 has removed the ability to add custom command or script outputs as sensors (which was a core feature in the legacy KSysGuard). This leaves users with no workaround to display missing hardware metrics natively. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Plasma System Monitor and enter "Edit Page" mode. 2. Search for "fan", "gpu", or "nvml" in the sensors list. 3. Search for any option to execute a custom script or command to pipe data (like nvidia-smi output) into a widget. OBSERVED RESULT 1. No NVIDIA fan speed sensor is found. 2. No UI element exists to add a user-defined command/script as a data source. EXPECTED RESULT 1. Native support for NVIDIA GPU fan speed metrics via NVML. 2. A mechanism to add custom script/command outputs as sensors to ensure the System Monitor remains extensible for new or unsupported hardware. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: CachyOS Linux (Kernel 7.0.10-2-cachyos) KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.26.0 Qt Version: 6.11.1 Graphics Platform: Wayland ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 (Driver: 610.43.02) - Note on Proprietary Driver: My graphics driver installation is fully functional. 'ksystemstats' already actively and successfully uses the proprietary NVIDIA NVML/nvidia-smi backend to report GPU Temperature, Frequency, and VRAM. The implementation is simply missing the code to parse and expose the GPU Fan Speed metric from that exact same library. - Without these features, users with modern hardware are forced to use third-party alternatives instead of native Plasma tools. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
