xorg 1.6, nivida drivers, and fan speed

banshee28 · 2009-04-21 00:23:58

I know the older nvidia drivers are not compatible with the new xorg, nor the nvidia-utils as I tried and found out!
I have 2 issues with this pc: I have a 6800gt nvidia card and the fan is constantly near 100% or close enough! I tried to install and run nvclock but it wont change the fan speed for this 6800 model. My xorg is below but I am not sure the drivers are working too good as the glxgears are only 140fps! I have a an older laptop with a smaller graphics card getting over 1000 fps!

NOW, before anyone gets excited I know glxgears is not the "best" benchmark, but its a decent one and accurate enough that I wont go from 140fps using it to 1000 fps using a similar bench.

I also tried to update the driver to the nouveau-drm driver but not sure if its installed or how to get it loaded in xorg. Any suggestions on these 2 issues?

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen        "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "dri2"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
    Option "DPMS" "True"

EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                 # [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "FlatPanel"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtcNumber"             # <i>
        #Option     "FPScale"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPTweak"                # <i>
        #Option     "DualHead"               # [<bool>]
    Option        "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
        Option        "NoLogo"       "True"
    Option        "RenderAccel"  "True"    
    Option "BackingStore" "True"
    Option "DamageEvents" "True"

    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "nv"
    VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName   "NV40 [GeForce 6800]"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0
    SubSection "Display"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
    Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

#Section "ServerFlags"
#    Option "AutoAddDevices" " False"
#EndSection

banshee28 · 2009-04-21 12:22:22

Any suggestions on this nvidia issue?

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#1 2009-04-21 00:23:58

xorg 1.6, nivida drivers, and fan speed

#2 2009-04-21 12:22:22

Re: xorg 1.6, nivida drivers, and fan speed

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