Coolbits not working
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I want to use coolbits to increase fan speed of my Fermi GPU. 280.13 driver installed. Ubuntu 11.10
I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf as follows, by pressing Alt+F2 and
gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
I get
Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GTX 470"
    Option  "NoLogo"    "True"
    Option "Coolbits" "4"
EndSection
Started getting these messages,
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap"
So I did this,
sudo aptitude install gtk2-engines-pixbuf
terminal,
a@z:~$ nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUFanControlState=1
a@z:~$ nvidia-settings -q fans
1 Fan on z:0
[0] z:0[fan:0] (Fan 0)
a@z:~$ nvidia-settings -a [fan:0]/GPUCurrentFanSpeed=80
ERROR: Error assigning value 80 to attribute 'GPUCurrentFanSpeed' (z:0[fan:0])
       as specified in assignment '[fan:0]/GPUCurrentFanSpeed=80' (Unknown
       Error).
So, it's not working; I can't enter the fan speed percentage. Also from NVidia X Server, there are no fan controls.
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Nvidia#Manual_Fan_Control_for_nVIDIA_Settings
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