From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S1Lqs-0007ER-RJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:56:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BE82E0CA4; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:55:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB1FBE0C3B for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:53:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A1A1B400F for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:53:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.75 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.75 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.839, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_RCVD_USER=1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id N9Ep6hVWPiKm for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:53:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 73CF91B4008 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:53:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S1LoM-0000Pc-GP for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:53:34 +0100 Received: from 204-14-146-98.static.idsno.net ([204.14.146.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:53:34 +0100 Received: from boxcars by 204-14-146-98.static.idsno.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:53:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?UTF-8?B?wrtRwqs=?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to read fan speed of my graphics card? Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:53:45 -0600 Organization: none Message-ID: <20120225115345.45aa9a61@fuchsia.remarqs.net> References: <20120225062735.GA3030@solfire> <1433758.gDmMOK2mFP@powerslave> <20120225080530.GB3030@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 204-14-146-98.static.idsno.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: 2e8f0eaf-decf-402e-a008-3e2140d25f00 X-Archives-Hash: 349e9a0a6d16532bd5b3cc31d9a9a0b9 On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:05:30 +0100 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Yohan Pereira [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.