Any #Linux users on #IntelArc here?

I bought an Intel Arc A750 and it looks fancy, works for gaming and AV1 encoding (after adding “vpl-gpu-rt” recompiling the kernel for that I guess), but I cannot control the fan at all!

The fan mode is “automatic” and on full power all the time which is crazy loud.

I tried everything, updated my kernel to 6.18 longterm, used a windows install to use that intel tool to upgrade the GPU firmware, no change.

Now I plan on connecting the fan to the case fan connector and controlling it through BIOS (I can read temperature now so that is okay-ish I guess).

I couldn’t find a single report of this being a thing at all, do these GPUs really have THAT shitty drivers? I thought it was just performance issues (which I didnt really see).

Discourse Thread:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/76041

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  • SteveTech@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    I don’t have a nixos account so I’m just replying here.

    I run an A770 LE on Debian Testing and most things seemed to work out of the box. I also contributed ARC support into nvtop, so I can explain some of the values from sensors.

    • fan speed still max and no reporting

    Not sure, maybe the fan become slightly unplugged, does it work in Windows? I know the fans on some sparkle cards have a different number of pulses per rotation that can screw with the readings, but it shouldn’t be 0.

    • no voltage or power usage shown

    Voltage only sometimes works for me and I’m not sure what it correlates to. But the power usage is shown, it just shows it in kilojoules since the card got power, not in watts. See this comment I made for a conversion.

    Just fan control…

    AFAIK, there’s nothing you can do.

    I do have a patch somewhere that can display VRAM temperature if you’d like to try it and nixos has a good way of applying patches.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    19 hours ago

    I’d find out who maintains the driver and see what kind of help they need to add or fix this functionality.