[gentoo-user] How to read fan speed of my graphics card?

[gentoo-user] How to read fan speed of my graphics card?

[meino.cramer]

Hi,

to supervise the speed of the two fans of my Nvidia GTX 560 Ti (made
by MSI) graphics card I need a way to read it in userland.

I tried lm_sensors for this but without any success -- but I have to
admit of not haveing much knowledge about these things, though. That
is the reason for asking for help here.

How can I accomplish this? With what I can experiment for this
purpose?

Thank you very much in advance for any help or hint!
Have a  nice weekend!
Best regards,
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read fan speed of my graphics card?

[Yohan Pereira]

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On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 07:27:35 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> to supervise the speed of the two fans of my Nvidia GTX 560 Ti (made
> by MSI) graphics card I need a way to read it in userland.
> 
> I tried lm_sensors for this but without any success -- but I have to
> admit of not haveing much knowledge about these things, though. That
> is the reason for asking for help here.
> 
> How can I accomplish this? With what I can experiment for this
> purpose?

the nvidia configuration utility (nvidia-settings) displays this info under 
the Thermal Settings tab. AFAIK is also a way to get it to print the info to 
STDOUT .. just mess arround with the cmd line arguments to nvidia-settings.

-- 

- Yohan Pereira

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference
between a mermaid and a seal.
                -- Mark Twain

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to read fan speed of my graphics card?

[meino.cramer]

Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@gmail.com> [12-02-25 08:48]:
> On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 07:27:35 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > to supervise the speed of the two fans of my Nvidia GTX 560 Ti (made
> > by MSI) graphics card I need a way to read it in userland.
> > 
> > I tried lm_sensors for this but without any success -- but I have to
> > admit of not haveing much knowledge about these things, though. That
> > is the reason for asking for help here.
> > 
> > How can I accomplish this? With what I can experiment for this
> > purpose?
> 
> the nvidia configuration utility (nvidia-settings) displays this info under 
> the Thermal Settings tab. AFAIK is also a way to get it to print the info to 
> STDOUT .. just mess arround with the cmd line arguments to nvidia-settings.
> 
> -- 
> 
> - Yohan Pereira
> 
> The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference
> between a mermaid and a seal.
>                 -- Mark Twain

Hi Yohan,

Thank you very much for that hint...I had never thought of that
possibility as I recognized nvidia-settings as a gui application 
only... :)

Best regards,
mcc

[gentoo-user] Re: How to read fan speed of my graphics card?

[»Q«]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:05:30 +0100
meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:

> Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@gmail.com> [12-02-25 08:48]:
> > On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 07:27:35 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > to supervise the speed of the two fans of my Nvidia GTX 560 Ti
> > > (made by MSI) graphics card I need a way to read it in userland.
> > > 
> > > I tried lm_sensors for this but without any success -- but I have
> > > to admit of not haveing much knowledge about these things,
> > > though. That is the reason for asking for help here.
> > > 
> > > How can I accomplish this? With what I can experiment for this
> > > purpose?
> > 
> > the nvidia configuration utility (nvidia-settings) displays this
> > info under the Thermal Settings tab. AFAIK is also a way to get it
> > to print the info to STDOUT .. just mess arround with the cmd line
> > arguments to nvidia-settings.

> Thank you very much for that hint...I had never thought of that
> possibility as I recognized nvidia-settings as a gui application 
> only... :)

If you're using app-admin/conky you can get a nice display of a several 
nVidia card status numbers.  The man page has the nVidia options.  That
may not fit what you wanted, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to toss it
into the thread.