[Trisquel-users] Graphics Card Fan Control

[danny]

Hi,
I'd used Trisquel 4 on a quite old computer before I upgraded my hardware.  
Now I have Brigantia installed on a triple-boot system that uses one NVIDIA  
9800GT card. However, at the moment I find it too noisy to use with Trisquel,  
because the standard software supplied with the nouveau drivers make my  
card's fan run at full speed.

The other operating systems (Windows 7 and Kubuntu) both use the proprietry  
NVIDIA drivers and therefore control the fan speed automatically.

I'd really like to get Trisquel to do the same using nouveau if possible, as  
I dislike prefer completely open source software.

Failing that, I'd consider installing the NVIDIA drivers onto Trisquel, but  
a) that would be a shame, and b) I don't know even whether that would be  
possible.

I've installed lm-sensors, and so I can monitor the temperature of my system,  
but that's about as far as I've got. Is there anyone who could suggest a way  
to solve my problem using only open source software (without buying another  
GPU card)? As a last resort, to save me having to use Microsoft or Canonical  
full-time, is there a way to install the NVIDIA drivers on Trisquel?