On 12/20/11 1:38 PM, Harald Judt wrote: > Hi, > > When using more than one monitor, the card uses higher clocks than in > single-monitor mode and low-power profile. As a subjectively negative > side-effect, the fan on the card starts making more noise. Other cards I > used before had no problem with staying quiet even when more monitors > were attached. > > As soon as I switch back to single-monitor mode, clocks go down and the > card becomes silent again. > > Is there a way to manually force lower clock speeds, and therefore reach > an acceptable noise level? Maybe make it use the same power profile > settings in dual-monitor as in single-monitor?
It really depends on what kind of power profiles the device exposes. Boot with drm.debug=0x2 and they'll be in dmesg. - ajax
