[coolcop06]

Hey guys, im new to the Linux scene, just installed Ubuntu 9.10 (now dual booting that and Win7 Pro x64). Anyways I just installed the latest driver release (which was scary enough to figure out with the terminal...) from the nvidia site (190.53 for Linux x64), and everything went and is working fine, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to overclock in Ubuntu! I installed coolbits in the terminal after I installed my driver, and in the control panel there is an overclocking section now, but everytime I change the clock speeds, they revert back to default settings without applying. This is veryyy frustrating! Does anyone else have any ideas??
Thanks

[mrx]

I would say bios overclock the card so u don't have to worry ocing in linux.
forgot to add link if u want to oc by bios. This is the guide i used to do my ocing
http://www.hardforum...d.php?t=1199078

my gpu now runs at 600 core, 1500 shader, 500 memory

This post has been edited by mrx: 09 February 2010 - 02:51 PM

[coolcop06]

Well this could be an option of mine, but i would like to stick to software overclocking, its just safer... lol. Anyone else got ideas?? This seems like a pretty simple issue, im probably just doing something really stupid... haha. But I will keep BIOS overclocking in mind.

EDIT: Well I couldnt even get nvflash to work correctly. It kept saying that it failed to start the service when I would try to back up the old BIOS... so I guess thats out...? lol

This post has been edited by coolcop06: 09 February 2010 - 08:46 PM

[mrx]

Nvflash is a cmd only program. U have to start up cmd and nav to where nvflash is located. then run "nvflash.exe --save oldbios.rom"

[coolcop06]

Thats exactly what I did, and in the elevated command prompt it said "Failed to start service" (I think the error code was 0x000004fb or something). Not quite sure why that is happening... maybe its an M1530 8600M GT thing...?

[mrx]

Well, Have u tryed this for ubuntu then http://ubuntuforums....p/t-175436.html from what i see, it looks easy to overclock in ubuntu

[coolcop06]

Tried that too, its the same thing as the nvidia control panel... as soon as I change the clocks and press apply, the clocks revert back to default settings. :/