The purpose of this system is to run a quad GPU F@H/BOINC setup as headless. My problem is that I cannot adjust the fan speeds. I am interacting with the system via SSH with PuTTY.
1: Installed Ubuntu Server 17.04. During the installation, I deselected standard system utilities, and selected OpenSSH from tasksel.
2: Upon installation, I ran the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update; sudo apt -y full-upgrade
sudo apt install nvidia-384 xorg x11-xserver-utils xauth
sudo reboot
3: After reboot, I did:
sudo nvidia-xconfig -a --enable-all-gpus --cool-bits=28 --allow-empty-initial-configuration
This is the resulting xorg.conf.
4: I then attempted to input these commands:
sudo nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUFanControlState=1
sudo nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100
Both give me the following message:
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run `nvidia-settings --help`for usage information.
Since I’ve read that SSH causes certain issues, I’ve seen some solutions where you’re required to use these commands instead:
DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/var/run/lightdm/root/:0 sudo nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUFanControlState=1
DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/var/run/lightdm/root/:0 sudo nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100
The first command returns the following message:
Attribute 'GPUFanControlState' (hiigaran:0[gpu:0]) assigned value 1
The second command returns nothing, and no change in fan speed is heard. nvidia-smi confirms that the fan speeds remained unchanged.
I thought perhaps if SSH was still being the issue, I’d create a script and let the system execute the commands itself. So I created a file called fancontrols with the following contents:
nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUFanControlState=1
nvidia-settings -a [fan:0]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100
nvidia-settings -a [gpu:1]/GPUFanControlState=1
nvidia-settings -a [fan:1]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100
nvidia-settings -a [gpu:2]/GPUFanControlState=1
nvidia-settings -a [fan:2]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100
nvidia-settings -a [gpu:3]/GPUFanControlState=1
nvidia-settings -a [fan:3]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100
I did chmod +x and added the following line to the bottom of crontab -e:
@reboot /home/hiigaran/Scripts/fancontrols
No change after a reboot. This script works on another system with identical hardware that runs Mint with Cinnamon, so the script should be good.
I’m not quite sure what to do with this. Why do I get the unable to init server message? What connection is being refused, and why? And is it related to the error about the undefined control display? I tried adding ‘Option “UseDisplayDevice” “DFP”’ to one of the device sections in my xorg.conf, but it seemed to make no difference, so I removed it.
I’m clueless on this one, guys. Highly unlikely it’s a bug, I did run the bug report script. Only…I don’t know how to upload the file with a command line interface. No, I’m fairly certain this is a Linux issue. Probably missing a package, or some permission problem or something along those lines. Perhaps someone might know where I’m going wrong.