NVIDIA GPU and Fan

[Srikanth Konjarla]

All,

I run Linux (Fedora 8 and Ubuntu 7.10) on two laptops that contain 
NVIDIA GPU. One thing i have noticed is that the Fan is always running 
on both laptops (Toshiba Tecra M5 and Averatec 7170). When i check for 
the CPU usage it is normally (with Compiz running) less than 3% and 
would obviously spike when any CPU intensive operations are performed. 
When the CPU is high the Fan is high with lot of noise.

I am not sure but wondering how the Fan works in laptops which have 
embedded GPU and is there a way to control the Fan. Also, is Compiz the 
reason for such a behavior.

I use livna's NVIDIA driver on Fedora 8.

Thanks

Srikanth