6970 fan on "liftoff" mode constantly.

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

On 13.12.2013 02:20, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> I don't know where to find glgears

glxgears is part of graphics/mesa-demos, like glxinfo.

> The only annoying "feature" of the whole new system is that the "squirrel
> cage" fan on the video card is set on "liftoff" mode.  Now ... sometimes
> ... when playing a particularly difficult game, the fan gets to 100%, but
> it's often partially mitigated by the sound of gunfire.  In this case,
> there is no gunfire.  The 100% fan occurs from when X starts to when I
> shutdown the machine.

Can you test this card with Linux 3.8? For instance, using a live CD of
Ubuntu 13.04.

The FreeBSD Radeon driver, ported from Linux 3.8, doesn't have the power
management feature. This new feature, which landed in Linux 3.11 as
experimental, allows the driver to adjust power & clocks. Without this,
the factory default is used: for some people, the card has low power &
clocks, for other people (maybe you), it's the other way around.

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron

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