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headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 1,977

Proprietary nVidia driver pegs fan at 65%

Window-shot:

http://i.imgur.com/feNCk2v.png

$ lspci | grep "VGA"
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 620] (rev a1)

$ pacman -Qi nvidia
Name           : nvidia
Version        : 325.15-5
Description    : NVIDIA drivers for linux
Architecture   : i686
URL            : http://www.nvidia.com/
Licenses       : custom
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : linux>=3.10  linux<3.11  nvidia-libgl  nvidia-utils=325.15
Optional Deps  : None
Required By    : None
Optional For   : None
Conflicts With : nvidia-96xx  nvidia-173xx
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 3731.00 KiB
Packager       : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date     : Fri 30 Aug 2013 06:11:40 PM NDT
Install Date   : Thu 05 Sep 2013 11:00:43 PM NDT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By   : Signature

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "Device0"
    Option         "Coolbits" "4"
    Option         "DPMS" "false"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Modes      "nvidia-auto-select"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Everything works well, even native Steam and games.  However my GPU fan is constantly pegged at 65%.  I'd like this to be lower.  The speed is "variable" and I believe that is what I want - automatically adjust to temperature.  However, I'd like the fan speed to be lower and automatically adjust to temperature.  I'm new to the proprietary nVidia driver so please bear with me and hopefully it is just something simple I've missed.