Okay, so setting up Fan Speed has stopped working for me since version 460.67-1.
It all began when I upgraded from that to 465.24.02-01, and right now i just tried the newer 465.27-1 and the same happened, setting up fan speed always results in: “Failed to set new Fan Speed!”
I checked dmesg and journalctl and found nothing weird about drivers not loading on boot; actually i didn’t find any related errors at all, so after a long investigation on this i’ve decided this can be only Nvidia’s Driver fault.
Im switching back to 460.67-1 permanently. And good luck to nvidia managing to get me into buying a new GPU into the next year. I also tried to use several other kernels I had sitting in here, but nothing. Fallbacking to 460.67 seems to be the only solution so far.
I’ve already wasted a lot of time on this thinking it was either my rig’s fault or my Distro fault.
Thank you srmfsrmf! I had to reinstall 460.67-1 to fix this problem. I wasted so many hours… In a case someone else has the same issue for fedora you can download the old drivers from here “https://muug.ca/mirror/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/32/x86_64/repoview/index.html” then remove the new ones " sudo dnf remove nvidia*" and install the packages from the folder you have downloaded the old ones " sudo dnf install ./* "
Really. I was ready to throw my graphic card in the trash can!
Had to re-install all 460.67-1 nvidia related drivers/tools. Here is a small list of the packages I had to downgrade on my Archlinux Distro: nvidia, nvidia-utils, nvidia-dkms, nvidia-settings, lib32-nvidia-utils, lib32-opencl-nvidia, libxnvctrl, opencl-vidia.
I tried to set the option “needs_root_rights = auto” but it is not working. I can’t find how to allow users…
NVIDIA WHEN YOU CHANGE THIS KIND OF STUFF YOU NEED TO PROVIDE ALSO SOME DOCUMENTATION!! OR MAKE YOUR DRIVERS OPEN SOURCE IF YOU CAN’T SUPPORT THEM! DON"T WASTE PEOPLE TIME AND MONEY!
I can tell running as root doesn’t solve the issue, because when I’m running as root on the latest nvidia drivers, 3D Applicaiton and games are either crashing or getting really slow after a few minutes; this is something that doesn’t happen when I’m using older nvidia drivers & also having fan speed at 100%. (I always run xorg as root, btw)
As for setting “needs_root_rights = auto; - not working” might be related to why setting fan speed also doesn’t work. I looked around journalctl and dmesg for any information that could help, still found nothing. It’s clearly an nvidia driver issue and not linux kernel messing with them.
Again, I tried several other kernels, since i have like 12 sitting on my archlinux. Did I also mention I always raw boot into my archlinux? So I have only kernel and drivers booting my system from scratch and then I summon xorg, gdm, dhcpcd, firewalld and finally boot into a graphical desktop environment of choice.
This is 100% without a doubt an nvidia driver problem.
The easiest way is to launch nvidia-settings from console with sudo:
sudo nvidia-settings
This will grant access to settings app to adjust the fan related information.
SH