Dedicated AMD GPU with fglrx-updates (catalyst 15.2), automatic fan control?

Is the graphics card firmware or fglrx driver responsible for automatic fan control? Or Catalyst Control Center?

If not any of these, what would I need to manually ensure the GPU doesn't cook itself?

In Linux, I have been using an APU up until now and the BIOS CPU fan settings obviously took care of GPU cooling as well. Sorry for noobish question.

Try this

# Query Index: 50, Speed in percent
$ aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 50"

From https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst#GPU.2FMem_frequency.2C_Temperature.2C_Fan_speed.2C_Overclocking_utilities
ArchLinux wiki is IMO a good place to search for things about configuring linux.

The link is helpful for sure if I find I need to dictate a certain fan speed. However, I just want to know if I put a GCN based card in a linux system and do nothing but install fglrx, will the GPU fans adjust according to temperature by default?

Ah, if I could only read. Sorry.
I don't know if catalyst can actually do it. aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 auto" should work, but it didn't use to.

Here are some scripts that do it:


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