Fan... crazy!

cybernetico · 02-09-2014, 10:11 AM

Good staff ...
I have a NVIDIA Geforce GTX-650 OC 1GB and seems a crazy fan always running at high speeds, is there no program to be able to control the fan speeds?
I thank you your answers.
Be well.

TobiSGD · 02-09-2014, 11:58 AM

The free nouveau driver has currently still problems with power-saving and setting the fan speed correctly. Install the proprietary Nvidia driver, that should solve the problem.

tommcd · 02-16-2014, 10:00 PM

Here are the specifics on how to install the nvidia driver from the Ubuntu repositories, which is the recommended method to install the proprietary nvidia driver in Ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bi...erHowto/Nvidia
Since you habe a newer nvidia card be sure to install the nvidia-current driver.
Also install mesa-utils and nvidia-settings.
You may need to reboot to insure that the driver is enabled. If it is not enabled just run:

Code:

sudo nvidia-xonfig

and that will enable the driver.
Then just run nvidia-settings from the terminal and it should show you that the nvidia driver is enabled.