[arch-general] xf86-video-nv question

[Don Juan]

On 01/15/2012 02:25 AM, Stefan Wilkens wrote:
> 2012/1/15 Don Juan<donjuansjiz at gmail.com>:
>> Does anyone know how to control the nvidia fan when using this driver? Its
>> the only thing I am not able to figure out and my video card starts getting
>> really hot after a bit. I have tried sensors and it does not detect
>> anything(fan related). I also did the pci prog, cant remember the name off
>> hand not on my arch box right now. I know the CPU fans are GPIO fans, does
>> that mean the nvidia one is as well and I can not control it? Keeping it on
>> a cooling pad keeps things cool enough, but I would really prefer to keep
>> using this driver for the time being with all the Xorg issues with the
>> proprietary drivers, and I honestly think the nouveau ones are worse than
>> the proprietary, NV has never let me down minus the heat issue on this one
>> laptop.
>>
>> Card: GeForce 360m
>>
>> Thanks for your time
> It seems likely that your card's power management features aren't
> supported by the -nv driver, NVIDIA dropped support for that in 2010
> and no longer support the open source efforts. At the moment of
> dropping, the -nv drivers lacked proper randr, KMS and powersave
> support. I would say that you're simply running into the limitations
> of a somewhat outdated driver.
>
> Nouveau is slowly catching up and is supporting powersave features for
> newer models, but it's touch and go. You card is of the NV50 family,
> nouveau's PowerManagement feature Wiki[1] mentions support for
> frequency scaling to be "MOSTLY" done and fan speed to be "WIP".
>
> [1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/PowerManagement
>
> You could try if the "mostly done" engine and memory re-clocking in
> its current state is enough to resolve your heat issues, but you may
> have to jump to the nvidia binary blob to have reliable power
> management.
Thanks for the time and effort in the response but nouveau is worse than 
using nv for me. I will just live with the heat until I can go back to 
nvidias blob

:)