PopOS 22.04 :: NVidia 3070 not showing Fan Duty

Graphics / Linux Linux
1

Hi people

I cannot control ASUS NVidia 3070 OC Fan Duty, not only that, there is no data about the fans

it was working months ago

I have coolbits at 12 :: sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep “error” shows 0 errors

** right now I just have limited W at 100 using GWE compiled from gitlab since I’m not using the card I prefer to keep power draw low (that’s why is showing 23w/100w)

that’s my system info >>

ferran@pop-os:~$ nvidia-smi
Sat Oct  1 13:56:43 2022       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.65.01    Driver Version: 515.65.01    CUDA Version: 11.7     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   51C    P5    23W / 100W |    296MiB /  8192MiB |      2%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      1661      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                116MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1867      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell               57MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     13246      G   firefox                           116MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     13663      G   gnome-control-center                3MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

ferran@pop-os:~$ neofetch
             /////////////                ferran@pop-os 
         /////////////////////            ------------- 
      ///////*767////////////////         OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS x86_64 
    //////7676767676*//////////////       Kernel: 5.19.12-xanmod1 
   /////76767//7676767//////////////      Uptime: 56 mins 
  /////767676///*76767///////////////     Packages: 2465 (dpkg), 63 (flatpak) 
 ///////767676///76767.///7676*///////    Shell: bash 5.1.16 
/////////767676//76767///767676////////   Resolution: 1920x1080, 1920x1080 
//////////76767676767////76767/////////   DE: GNOME 42.3.1 
///////////76767676//////7676//////////   WM: Mutter 
////////////,7676,///////767///////////   WM Theme: WhiteSur-Dark-solid-blue 
/////////////*7676///////76////////////   Theme: WhiteSur-Dark-solid-blue [GTK2/3] 
///////////////7676////////////////////   Icons: Vimix-dark [GTK2/3] 
 ///////////////7676///767////////////    Terminal: gnome-terminal 
  //////////////////////'////////////     CPU: 11th Gen Intel i7-11700 (16) @ 4.800GHz 
   //////.7676767676767676767,//////      GPU: Intel RocketLake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 750] 
    /////767676767676767676767/////       GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 
      ///////////////////////////         Memory: 2921MiB / 63130MiB 
         /////////////////////
             /////////////
2

So the “GPU Fan” display of nvidia-smi always stays at 0%?
Please check if this is a driver regression, e.g. by downgrading to the 470 driver.
If that doesn’t work either, the fan’s speed sensor is likely broken.

3

yo are right

looks like hardware sensors stopped to work

downgraded to 475 and fans still showing 0

booting into Windows fans show 0 also

4

ok I just found the issue

is as simple as my GPU is not getting hotter as time ago, then fans do not trigger

fan RPM sensor is working

I guess because before was summer and room temperature was hotter

also months ago I was used to compute a lot, having always fans spinning

I’m back to Nvidia 520 (actually I was at 500 before)