On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:22:41AM -0000, Vitaly Zawullon Katraev wrote: > When i use opensource driver for ATI card - notebook fan always spinning > and themperature of outgoing from fan air is very high, even when I set > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile to low and cpu mode to > powersave. With proprietary drivers (fglrx) I set video card performance > to "ondemand" (I forgot the exact name of this mode in ATI control > center) and cpu mode to ondemand, and notebook isn`t hot, fans not > spinning (if I not start flash, games or some similar app with high cpu > load). So with fglrx I can use notebook from battery 1,5-2 hours and > it`s not hot, but with opensource driver battery of notebook is down in > 50 minutes, fan is olways on, it noise is loud, and notebook is very > hot.
Great, thanks. Also, when did you first start noticing this issue with the open source driver? (Or has it always been this way with your hardware when running this driver?) Fwiw, I think this may be a known issue with -ati. (I've burnt out a card or two due to this or a similar issue myself.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/748080 Title: ATI card fan is always on with opensource radeon driver -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
