In the terminal run:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
sudo nvidia-xconfig --cool-bits=4
restart your computer and search for NVIDIA X Server Settings in the Dash. There should be an option to change fan speed under Thermal Settings.
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In the terminal run:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
sudo nvidia-xconfig --cool-bits=4
restart your computer and search for NVIDIA X Server Settings in the Dash. There should be an option to change fan speed under Thermal Settings.
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To control Nvidia GPU fan speed via Terminal on Linux Mint 20 with a 1070 Ti:
sudo nvidia-xconfig --cool-bits=4
to tell nvidia-xconfig to allow the fan to be controlled in the command line. You may need to reboot here.
nvidia-smi
Gives information about the GPU(s) and their numbers. Importantly I note that my 1070 Ti is GPU 0.
nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:0]/GPUFanControlState=1" -a "[fan:0]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=55"
For a much more detailed overview of this feature including multiple GPU fans, check out this thorough documentation Nvidia Overclocking and Cooling
For a somewhat rambling and wayward thread which lead me to the above link, check out Set Fanspeed in Linux from Terminal
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And as an extra tidbit not asked for in this question, you can also adjust the power output of your Nvidia GPU with:
sudo nvidia-smi -i 0 -pl 90
Where the 0 is my GPU number, and the 90 is the maximum power in watts. If you set this too low, you will get an error. In my limited experience, setting it too high had no effect. I found I can get 95%+ performance for ~75% energy cost by setting the power level to 100 in the above command in my mining rig, but I imagine other power conscious users would appreciate this too.
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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: Heya, need a good way to control fan curve on Linux - NVIDIA
February 26, 2024 -
So, let me summarize to a lot of you.
my GPU is a 1660 Super, and since NVIDIA has a lot of problems on Linux I tend to try and find solutions and alternatives, but nothing seems to get to fix it.
I want to set a fan curve for my GPU, and Green With Envy sadly seems to just never work.
Even after setting the optimal settings, and enabling coolbits, it still refuses to work no matter what. If there is some kind of way to control fans for GPU fans on Linux, I would be very glad and it would help me a lot.
NVIDIA in general is still awful on Linux from my point of view, but i'm hoping those kinds of things will improve in the future.
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Nvidia added a better API to control fans over a year ago but no one has stepped up to modify GWE to use it.
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It really depends on the distro for some reason. For example, I simply cannot get GreenWithEnvy to work on Fedora no matter what I do, while it works perfectly on openSUSE Tumbleweed as a flatpak and Arch from AUR. I don't know enough about this to understand why, but that's just my experience. When GreenWithEnvy is working, it's awesome. I set my fan curve and also limit the power level on my 3080 since it likes to cook the memory in it's default settings. Edit: You can manually set the fan speed on your card using nvidia-smi nvidia-settings from the command line. This isn't variable rate control, its a static setting. So if you want it at 70% you set that, and it'll stay that way until you set it as something else. I know that isn't optimal, but if you can't get GWE to work it might be a solution.
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October 14, 2022 - NVIDIA has nvidia-settings console app which technically allows you to set any GPU settings using terminal. I started googling on how to set the fan speed for individual GPU using that. First of all, you have to set a bitmask that will allow controlling cooling settings:
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With nvidia driver 337 or newer the Option "Coolbits" "12" thing in xorg.conf allows overclocking gpu and video RAM and provides a slider for fan control. In Ubuntu 14.04 I had to use xorg-edgers ppa to get a new enough nvidia version (346.22 ...
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I solved this issue by writing a small python script run on startup that grep -P \d{1,3}(?=C)s the temperature from nvidia-smi. This temperature is internally used to calculate a PWM number (0, 255) which is then written to the /etc/fancontrol file provided initially by pwmconfig:
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GPU Fan control - FIXED/SOLVED :: Steam for Linux 일반 토론
Normally you would use "sudo " prefix for these commands, but not needed in root console: apt-get purge nvidia* add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa apt-get update apt-get install nvidia-346 nvidia-xconfig --cool-bits=12 Then you will have manual fan control option (and gpu & mem speed offsets) in NVIDIA X Server Settings.