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Bladtman242

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Registered: 2012-02-14

Posts: 127

Gfx card temperature not meassured

I wasn't sure whether to post here or in the laptop forum. But I figured it is probably closest related to hardwar.
I have a strange problem with my nvidia 9600M on my laptop
When I run sensors, from lm_sensors 3.3.2-3, the vga temperature doesn't change. It simply remains whatever it was at boot (which seems to be correct though).
In addition to this, the fan speed is only regulated according to cpu temperaturewhich means I fairly often get crashes when my graphics card is over heated.
I'm fairly sure I'm running the "stock" fan speed control. (I could never get pwmconfig and fancontrol to work, the fan just kept running full-speed).
I'm using the proprietary 302.17-1 nvidia driver.
Any additional info I should provide?
I'd appreciate it if anyone has a take on how to approach this?

jamesbond007

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 150

Re: Gfx card temperature not meassured

Hi Bladtman242,

I use this:

nvidia-settings -query GPUCoreTemp

...or if you just want to get the plain temperature:

nvidia-settings -query GPUCoreTemp | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if /GPUCoreTemp.*?: (\d+)./;'

Bladtman242

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Registered: 2012-02-14

Posts: 127

Re: Gfx card temperature not meassured

Hi JamesBond007.

nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemt -t

Does the trick as well.
Sorry, I should have been more clear.
I'm not really concerned with the gpu core temp.
What concerns me is that
1. Sensors isn't picking up the gpu temperature properly.
2. (more important) The fans speed is set completely without consideration for it.
Which gives me frequent crashes.

Last edited by Bladtman242 (2012-07-25 21:32:06)