AmbientFiction
12-14-09, 05:39 AM
Yes yes I know this was cover by Sydney in his guide to installing ubuntu/nix distros to fold.
Well I'm gonna be covering an issue I ran into and how to fix this issue for those of you who do not know how to fix this issue.
Overclocking your GPU in Linux
If you are doing this, I assume you have already done so in Windows and know the safe clocks for your card(s). To overclock your video card in Linux you have to enable ‘coolbits’ in your nvidia control panel. To do this we will have to edit the xorg configuration:
$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
And then add ‘Option “CoolBits” “1″‘ under ‘Section: “Device”‘ like so:
Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
Driver “nvidia”
Option “NoLogo” “True”
Option “Coolbits” “1″
I myself have done this very thing and had it work and on the other hand I've been given crap by the OS about how my xorg.conf has parse issues and xserver will not run on reboot. First time I had this happen I just reinstalled clean slate ubuntu formatted the whole system and just started over.
Well let me tell you its not all that hard to fix this issue and today I'm gonna teach you how.
First off when yousudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to add the Option Coolbits to the xorg.conf file. Save yourself an untouched copy as say xorg.conf2 . Really simple all you're doing here is making a back up of this file before you add the Option "Coolbits" "1"
So ok lets say upon reboot you run into the same issue I was having. Which was when xserver tried to boot it gave me a blue screen error. Then after looking at all the errors telling you that Xserver can not run and to restart GDM once you fix the issue in xorg.conf. It then dumps you to a tty1 login. At this point if you don't know your way around linux and just think hey it will be easier if I just reinstall like I did. Trust me that is the wrong route this fix will take you all of 3 mins 5 is you're a slow typer. Its rather simple and here is the commandsudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf2
This will load your backup xorg.conf file you made before changing settings. Now press ctrl+o. At which point it is going to ask you what name you want to save as. Save the file as xorg.conf. It will ask you if you are sure you would like to overwrite. Tell it yes and then press crtl+x to exit the program. type in sudo reboot and let linux do its thing.
Problem solved!!
Hope this helps it surely helped a Nix noob like me.
Mods feel free to edit title and any error you find in my writing. If someone would like to put this somewhere fine by me. I'm not the best at writing tuts but I'm always willing to share my knowledge.
Fold them CPUs and GPUs till they bleed!!!
Well I'm gonna be covering an issue I ran into and how to fix this issue for those of you who do not know how to fix this issue.
Overclocking your GPU in Linux
If you are doing this, I assume you have already done so in Windows and know the safe clocks for your card(s). To overclock your video card in Linux you have to enable ‘coolbits’ in your nvidia control panel. To do this we will have to edit the xorg configuration:
$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
And then add ‘Option “CoolBits” “1″‘ under ‘Section: “Device”‘ like so:
Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
Driver “nvidia”
Option “NoLogo” “True”
Option “Coolbits” “1″
I myself have done this very thing and had it work and on the other hand I've been given crap by the OS about how my xorg.conf has parse issues and xserver will not run on reboot. First time I had this happen I just reinstalled clean slate ubuntu formatted the whole system and just started over.
Well let me tell you its not all that hard to fix this issue and today I'm gonna teach you how.
First off when yousudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to add the Option Coolbits to the xorg.conf file. Save yourself an untouched copy as say xorg.conf2 . Really simple all you're doing here is making a back up of this file before you add the Option "Coolbits" "1"
So ok lets say upon reboot you run into the same issue I was having. Which was when xserver tried to boot it gave me a blue screen error. Then after looking at all the errors telling you that Xserver can not run and to restart GDM once you fix the issue in xorg.conf. It then dumps you to a tty1 login. At this point if you don't know your way around linux and just think hey it will be easier if I just reinstall like I did. Trust me that is the wrong route this fix will take you all of 3 mins 5 is you're a slow typer. Its rather simple and here is the commandsudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf2
This will load your backup xorg.conf file you made before changing settings. Now press ctrl+o. At which point it is going to ask you what name you want to save as. Save the file as xorg.conf. It will ask you if you are sure you would like to overwrite. Tell it yes and then press crtl+x to exit the program. type in sudo reboot and let linux do its thing.
Problem solved!!
Hope this helps it surely helped a Nix noob like me.
Mods feel free to edit title and any error you find in my writing. If someone would like to put this somewhere fine by me. I'm not the best at writing tuts but I'm always willing to share my knowledge.
Fold them CPUs and GPUs till they bleed!!!