How to activate coolbits

Then log out of the desktop session to GDM and then back in. Then the fan speed option should be available in Nvidia settings. The above section of the xorg. This is very simple and causes no issues. On Windows, you use MSI Afterburner to set the fan properties and monitor the temperature, but on Linux, you have Nvidia settings utility. So the ability to set the fan speed is necessary and it is very strange that this is not available unless you have configured a Xorg.

But at least this setting works and allows a user to control something as simple as the speed of the GPU fan. The good thing about Linux is that there is always a good fix for a problem you encounter. The fan speed of your Nvidia card may also be controlled with the command line. This is quick and easy to do. This command will return information about the GPU temperature.

This is very useful to keep track of the temperature of the card whilst running intensive tasks using the GPU. This might avoid the black screen error with Nvidia drivers as they are troublesome.

Add the Option "Coolbits" "28" option here and see if this helps. Post category: Debian-Testing. Fuck you, you peices of SHIT! I did this and got stuck in a boot loop and I tried to enter my credentials in the shell and it said they were wrong! First dumbass Windows has a damn dll corrupt file and bricks my computer, then you assholes brick my computer after following you little asshole command lines.

Fuck you assholes, make you famn system work correctly for once! It is an Nvidia graphics card monitoring and overclocking software. If you haven't heard of it.

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I'll do the same. MadHatter if you still looking for it, posted how I did it in my case, maybe it will help. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I assume it should work the same for main branch of Ubuntu.

I edit my input options using file libinput. Improve this answer. Worked, thanks : I set the Coolbits to "" though. That was a good answer, but I think things have become slightly easier. Unless you have some kind of custom xorg configuration you can just run this command.