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Fatigue sometimes causes you to do foolish and irrational things. That's why last night, driven by the desire and need to find a solution to properly cool my graphics card under Linux, I started a perilous operation consisting in modifying the configuration script of Nvidia's proprietary drivers. Something I should have done with my head rested, so much the tiredness caused by a full week of work did not allow me to reason clearly. Despite a rather late hour (around 2am), I took the firm decision to put my hands in the dirt and thus solve this slight dilemma.

## With great power comes great responsibility
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My **GTX1080** has served me well in the past and I am still fully satisfied with its performance. This one has nothing to be ashamed of with the new range of GPUs available on the market, the **Pascal** architecture clearly sending steak as long as you are not a Ray-Tracing aficionado. The fact is that this summer has exceptional temperatures putting my hardware to the test. So I had to find a way to regulate the temperature of my graphic card. One of these solutions is to set its fans to manual mode, while keeping an eye on the temperatures. However, I was faced with a slight problem since the GUI configuration panel, desperately remains in automatic mode.

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*"So Nvidia, fuck you !"*

These words thus released in my head, while taking again the attitude of **Linus Torvalds** during this mythical scene, I resigned myself to undertake research on the forums of **Manjaro**, in the hope of finding a manipulation which will be salutary for me. Indeed, I will have to go through the good old bash and insert a very particular command line that could unblock the situation.

```sudo nvidia-xconfig --cool-bits=5```

```nvidia-settings -a “[gpu:0]/GPUFanControlState=1” -a "[fan:0]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=80"```

So far, nothing serious or complicated. Until...

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*"Fuuuuuuuuu!!!!"*

I rant and rave at my screen. I can't get these fucking fans to run the way I want them to. In the course of a new discussion, I discover that it's possible to make an automation in the drivers config script. So I decide to perform this task with an edit via nano, while passing root and rebooting my system... And that's the drama !

## When they tell you that you have access to everything on Linux...
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With my eyes wide open, I can only conclude that this was not the right way to proceed. My screen remains black, without any visible reaction or display. Worried at first, I then went into a dark rage. That's when I discovered that I had some mastery of the Quebec joual.

*"Osti de cris de tabarnak de Nvidia de marde !"*

Yes, I found myself screaming such nonsense while banging my fist on my desk. Without a doubt, it is the fact that I am talking a little too much with our Quebec members here. Still, in the end, I could only blame myself. It's three o'clock in the morning and I just fucked up my X.org server...

But in my misfortune, a glimmer of hope suddenly appears when I saw in the distance my USB key including a live version of my favorite distro. Not one, not two I insert it in the usb port of my tower and restart my machine completely. The screens lit up and it was with great relief that I could go to my home partition to remove the few extra lines of scripts I had added. I could finally sleep easy, I fixed my bullshit !