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ttps://www.iodocs.com/how-to-enable-gp ... -in-linux/ is the only thing I found that might be a reasonable option, however I haven't tried it yet. I am guessing that since the card uses it's own configuration that putting something in xorg.conf would make no difference.

Have you had any luck with fan control for nvidia?

Good find.

Have not tried this.

All I have done is each time I boot up, I run Nvidia X server settings program, and manually setup the fan speed.

But on reboot, the setting is gone, and have to do it again.

@bigpup

I edited xorg config after making a backup and added

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia" #card0driver
BusID "1:0:0" #card0busid

Option "Coolbits" "4"

EndSection
and restarted x

It worked to allow me to change fan speed in the Nvidia control panel, though I haven't rebooted yet. Brought the temps down on both the gpu and the cpu. I will reboot and see if it sticks.
Thanks for the tip.

EDIT!
Partially worked with a reboot, set the speed to 28 from 70. After shutdown and boot again it didn't save, set the speed to 0 and I had to enable speed control again and set it. Guess have to edit the NVIDIA config too., After dinner- or maybe tomorrow

The fan speed resetting to 0, after a reboot or shutdown/boot up, is a known issue in the Nvidia X server Settings program.

There are posts about it, all over the Internet.

A lot of try this type fixes, but so far, I have not found anything that will stick.

For now, you just have to make the setting change, every time you boot up.

On my Nvida card, the internal built in fan control seems to work to start the fans at it's set temp.
So the fans do run, but this temp setting is much hotter, more like max temp.

Same here.

I can't see anywhere in the nvidia-settings-rc file where it mentions fans. I can confirm that the close button does update the config and rewrite it.

I think I read somewhere you had to add a line with a value of =1 but I can't seem to find that either. Perhaps it goes in the configure area of the file somehow?

# ConfigProperties:

RcFileLocale = C
DisplayStatusBar = Yes
SliderTextEntries = Yes
IncludeDisplayNameInConfigFile = No
ShowQuitDialog = No
UpdateRulesOnProfileNameChange = Yes
Timer = PowerMizer_Monitor_(GPU_0),Yes,1000
Timer = Thermal_Monitor_(GPU_0),Yes,1000
Timer = Memory_Used_(GPU_0),Yes,3000

Haven't tried editing that file. Perhaps adding something like
GPUFanControlState = 1
But I am guessing it would have to be formatted correctly