Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:21:32 -0800 Don Juan wrote: Thanks for the time and effort in the response but nouveau is worse than using nv for me. I will just live with the heat until I can go back to nvidias blob It's *always* a dumb move to move fan control out of hardware and into software.

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-16 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 14:55 +0200, Thanasis Georgiou wrote: On 16 January 2012 14:03, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [snip] I've had to resort to attaching a resistor to the fans wire in the past. [snip] Or connect it to a potentiometer and have control of the speed. I

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-16 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 16:14 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 14:55 +0200, Thanasis Georgiou wrote: On 16 January 2012 14:03, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [snip] I've had to resort to attaching a resistor to the fans wire in the past. [snip] Or

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-16 Thread Thanasis Georgiou
On 16 January 2012 17:20, Ralf Madorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 16:14 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote: [snip] I thought that since we are away from Ataris, we don't need a fan control anymore, anyway:

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-16 Thread Mauro Santos
On 16-01-2012 15:14, Ralf Madorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 14:55 +0200, Thanasis Georgiou wrote: On 16 January 2012 14:03, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [snip] I've had to resort to attaching a resistor to the fans wire in the past. [snip] Or connect it to a potentiometer

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-16 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 17:28 +0200, Thanasis Georgiou wrote: On the other hard if you can get temperature readings in software level you can send them to a micro controller (Arduino?) which will control the fans accordingly. I think we are a bit offtopic though :) . A micro controller needs

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-16 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 15:55 +, Mauro Santos wrote: On 16-01-2012 15:14, Ralf Madorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 14:55 +0200, Thanasis Georgiou wrote: On 16 January 2012 14:03, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [snip] I've had to resort to attaching a resistor to the fans

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-16 Thread Don Juan
On 01/16/2012 08:07 AM, Ralf Madorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 17:28 +0200, Thanasis Georgiou wrote: On the other hard if you can get temperature readings in software level you can send them to a micro controller (Arduino?) which will control the fans accordingly. I think we are a bit

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-15 Thread Ionut Biru
On 01/15/2012 08:32 AM, Don Juan wrote: Does anyone know how to control the nvidia fan when using this driver? Its the only thing I am not able to figure out and my video card starts getting really hot after a bit. I have tried sensors and it does not detect anything(fan related). I also did

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-15 Thread Don Juan
On 01/15/2012 12:20 AM, Ionut Biru wrote: On 01/15/2012 08:32 AM, Don Juan wrote: Does anyone know how to control the nvidia fan when using this driver? Its the only thing I am not able to figure out and my video card starts getting really hot after a bit. I have tried sensors and it does not

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-15 Thread Stefan Wilkens
2012/1/15 Don Juan donjuans...@gmail.com: Does anyone know how to control the nvidia fan when using this driver? Its the only thing I am not able to figure out and my video card starts getting really hot after a bit. I have tried sensors and it does not detect anything(fan related). I also did

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-15 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 22:32 -0800, Don Juan wrote: Does anyone know how to control the nvidia fan when using this driver? [snip] Card: GeForce 360m Fortunately my graphics is passive. Regarding to your issue I did some research on German. I didn't find how to solve your issue, but I read a

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-15 Thread Ralf Madorf
On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 10:20 +0200, Ionut Biru wrote: On 01/15/2012 08:32 AM, Don Juan wrote: I honestly think the nouveau ones are worse than the proprietary don't use xf86-video-nv, use xf86-video-nouveau + nouveau-dri for 3d A lot of Nvidia users can't use the nouveau driver. It doesn't

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-15 Thread Don Juan
On 01/15/2012 02:25 AM, Stefan Wilkens wrote: 2012/1/15 Don Juandonjuans...@gmail.com: Does anyone know how to control the nvidia fan when using this driver? Its the only thing I am not able to figure out and my video card starts getting really hot after a bit. I have tried sensors and it does

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-15 Thread Stefan Wilkens
2012/1/15 Ralf Madorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: [snip] It's good that Arch Linux still provide the nv driver, at least Debian dropped it, but it's known that nouveau doesn't work for many users, that there at least is the need to offend the GPL to use the proprietary driver with a

[arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

2012-01-14 Thread Don Juan
Does anyone know how to control the nvidia fan when using this driver? Its the only thing I am not able to figure out and my video card starts getting really hot after a bit. I have tried sensors and it does not detect anything(fan related). I also did the pci prog, cant remember the name off