The Nouveau driver graduates from staging [LWN.net]

The Nouveau driver graduates from staging

Posted Mar 29, 2012 7:19 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: The Nouveau driver graduates from staging by tialaramex
Parent article: The Nouveau driver graduates from staging

If you don't have temperature driven fan management (which I think remains the best way to control fans), the safe thing to do is what overclockers do:

- find suitable stress test programs that drive both CPU and GPU as hard as possible
- manually adjust the fan speeds until temperature is within safe limits for both CPU and GPU - maybe go for 10-15C below maximums to allow for really hot weather up to 40C, depending on current room temperature

This will be noisier than a temperature driven fan setup, of course - this may help: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fan_Speed_Control - and many laptops have specific fan control tools. GkrellM and other tools report fan speeds from GPU as well as CPU.

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