On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:05:30 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Yohan Pereira <yohan.pere...@gmail.com> [12-02-25 08:48]: > > On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 07:27:35 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > to supervise the speed of the two fans of my Nvidia GTX 560 Ti > > > (made by MSI) graphics card I need a way to read it in userland. > > > > > > I tried lm_sensors for this but without any success -- but I have > > > to admit of not haveing much knowledge about these things, > > > though. That is the reason for asking for help here. > > > > > > How can I accomplish this? With what I can experiment for this > > > purpose? > > > > the nvidia configuration utility (nvidia-settings) displays this > > info under the Thermal Settings tab. AFAIK is also a way to get it > > to print the info to STDOUT .. just mess arround with the cmd line > > arguments to nvidia-settings.
> Thank you very much for that hint...I had never thought of that > possibility as I recognized nvidia-settings as a gui application > only... :) If you're using app-admin/conky you can get a nice display of a several nVidia card status numbers. The man page has the nVidia options. That may not fit what you wanted, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to toss it into the thread.
