Comment 1 for bug 228358

I also have a problem with the nvidia videocard fan running at 100% all the time.
I'm not sure how this relates to above since mine is a desktop and it is only the videocard fan that is really loud. The system fan is quiet so not an issue for me.

There are lots of links on the web to the nvidia fan issues.
Does this need to be reported as a separate bug just for nvidia cards?

I've been manually changing it like this when logged in: nvclock -f -F 60
I was going to try to write a script to throttle the fan back when logged-out, since it goes back to 100% when you log out.

My system is:
Linux version 2.6.24-16-rt (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Apr 10 15:15:40 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-4.6-generic)

nvidia-glx-new:
  Installed: 169.12+2.6.24.12-16.34

Video Card is NVIDIA 6600GT.

Some references:

http://www.linuxhardware.org/nvclock/

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=54901
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=104713&page=9