[gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread James
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: It's not ATI or water cooled, but I got a GeForce 9600 with a giant aftermarket heat sink preinstalled (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134050), totally passive fanless and silent, for under $100 at the time I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 12 Dezember 2008, James wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: It's not ATI or water cooled, but I got a GeForce 9600 with a giant aftermarket heat sink preinstalled (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134050), totally passive fanless

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: Any techniques, available in Gentoo, to monitor the temperature of and of the new video cards? with ati: aticonfig --odgt I have this installed: x11-drivers/ati-drivers Installed versions: 8.552-r2 So I get:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 12 Dezember 2008, James wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: Any techniques, available in Gentoo, to monitor the temperature of and of the new video cards? with ati: aticonfig --odgt I have this installed: x11-drivers/ati-drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote: On Freitag 12 Dezember 2008, James wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: Any techniques, available in Gentoo, to monitor the temperature of and of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 12 Dezember 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Try aticonfig --od-enable and then --odgc odgt not odgc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:50 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: It's not ATI or water cooled, but I got a GeForce 9600 with a giant aftermarket heat sink preinstalled

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: no, that has nothing to do with the kernel. Maybe you need to turn on overdrive first. Try aticonfig --od-enable and then --odgc aticonfig --od-enable ATI Overdrive(TM) enabled aticonfig --odgc ERROR - Get clocks failed

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread James
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: I've never tried the HDMI, so I can't say how it behaves, but yeah it came with a DVI to HDMI dongle thing. As far as I know the video signal in HDMI and DVI are identical, and that HDMI is basically like DVI with sound. I could be wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: I've never tried the HDMI, so I can't say how it behaves, but yeah it came with a DVI to HDMI dongle thing. As far as I know the video signal in HDMI and DVI are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 12 Dezember 2008, James wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: no, that has nothing to do with the kernel. Maybe you need to turn on overdrive first. Try aticonfig --od-enable and then --odgc aticonfig --od-enable ATI Overdrive(TM) enabled

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: aticonfig --odgc ERROR - Get clocks failed for the Default Adapter - Radeon X1900 Series that was a type --odgt. aticonfig --help has lots of usefull info. yep typo aticonfig --odgt ERROR - Get temperature failed

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James wrote: I've been looking for an ATI graphics card with a water cooling system built in. I'm very tired of listen to the roar of a video card fan. I believe Sapphire has those under the label WaterCooled. HD3870X2 and HD4870 I think. Google for Sapphire WaterCooled.