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 offtopic

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 wrote: > >>> [snip] > >>> I've had to resort to attaching a resistor to the fans wire

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 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 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

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

2012-01-16 Thread Thanasis Georgiou
On 16 January 2012 17:20, Ralf Madorf 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: >> >> http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://coolcircuit.com/circuit/fan_controller/auto

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 wrote: > > > [snip] > > > I've had to resort to attaching a resistor to the fans wire in the past. > > > [snip] > > > > Or connect

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 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 thought that si

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

2012-01-16 Thread Thanasis Georgiou
On 16 January 2012 14:03, Kevin Chadwick 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. -- Thanasis Georgiou

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

2012-01-15 Thread Stefan Wilkens
2012/1/15 Ralf Madorf : > [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 kernel-rt, while at the same ti

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 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(fa

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 d

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

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

2012-01-15 Thread Stefan Wilkens
2012/1/15 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, can

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 de

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 di