Nouveau has no sensors

[nerumo]

Thanks for this effort, looks promising. For me it ends with Error: could not find hwmon directory for nouveau driver. I found out, that my nouveau driver has no sensor support in the driver yet. According to https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/PowerManagement.html, this isn't implemented yet for NV160+. Which version of the driver are you using? Or are you using an older card?

I'm on kernel 6.12.3

[TwinkleByte]

I’m using an older card (NVE0) that supports a thermal sensor. Unfortunately, like you mentioned, your card doesn’t support sensor readings.

My tool relies completely on the sensor data from the nouveau driver. Since your GPU’s sensor interface isn’t implemented upstream yet, the error you’re seeing is expected for newer NVIDIA cards.

Try running this command:
watch sensors
If you can get your GPU temperature from that, then the issue is with my CLI tool, and the power management page is outdated—it should be updated with "DONE" instead of "TODO." If it my CLI tool's issue then I'll fix the bug.

If that command doesn’t work, you could report the issue here:
nouveau/issues

Also, since the power management page still says "TODO," it means someone needs to work on it. Unfortunately, I don’t have your card, so I can’t contribute to the nouveau driver to get the thermal sensor working.

I’ll keep this issue open to track progress upstream. Let me know if you need help with anything else

[nerumo]

Thank you for the explanations. No sensors for me with nouveau :) I remain patient, thank you

[TwinkleByte]

You're welcome. And, since your card is new. I suggest you should look forward to the new projects like Nova and NVK. I heard they are really getting good. I'll close the issue since this issue is not related to my tool.

On second thought, this error could be happening because you have nvidia proprietary driver installed that prevents nouveau driver from being loaded. Basically meaning nouveau being uninstalled. You'd have to install nouveau first to use this tool.