6970 fan on "liftoff" mode constantly.

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell at freebsd.org
> wrote:

> 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
>
>

I have a 6770 and run FreeBSD 11.x, if you have a github repo or a patch
that apply to HEAD
I will test out the linux 3.11 code if you have a working copy somewhere.
-- 

Sam Fourman Jr.