How to silence video card in Ubuntu?

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I have a radeon 6950 that I'm using in Ubuntu and for some reason the fan is always running at 100%. How do i resolve this? I'm a newb to Ubuntu!
 
bjornb17 said:
I have a radeon 6950 that I'm using in Ubuntu and for some reason the fan is always running at 100%. How do i resolve this? I'm a newb to Ubuntu!
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I was also wondering this exact same thing today. Can't wait to get a solution to it, damn things get loud.
 
I did find something that seems to quiet them down some. Go into Software sources and click on the additional drivers tab and I selected the third option, Using Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators from fglrx-updates. Then I restarted, it also gave me the ATI control panel so I was able to enable cross-fire also :).
I don't know if thats a proper fix but it works for me.

preferences>Software sources>Additional drivers
 
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I would try installing amdoverdrivectrl since it appears that program will let you control the fan speed. You have to use the proprietary (third party) AMD drivers for this to work.
 
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