nvidia-fan-ctl

NVIDIA Fan Control Tool that uses NVIDIA's NVML library for direct hardware access without requiring X11 or nvidia-settings. It will work in background sessions and as a service.

Build

# create symlink to libnvidia-ml.so.1
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-ml.so.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-ml.so

# build
./build.sh

Install

Copy to /usr/local/bin:

sudo cp -f ./gpu-fan-control /usr/local/bin/gpu-fan-control

Create service file:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/gpu-fan-control.service

Copy this config in it:

[Unit]
Description=GPU Fan Control Service
After=nvidia-persistenced.service
Wants=nvidia-persistenced.service

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/gpu-fan-control
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
User=root

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable and start the service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable gpu-fan-control
sudo systemctl start gpu-fan-control

Check status:

sudo systemctl status gpu-fan-control
sudo journalctl -u gpu-fan-control -f

Update:

sudo systemctl stop gpu-fan-control
sudo cp -f ./gpu-fan-control /usr/local/bin/gpu-fan-control
sudo systemctl start gpu-fan-control