On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:29:47PM +0100, Denis Washington wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.37-2 > Severity: important > Tags: upstream > > With the Free Software driver, the GPU fan of my AMD Radeon HD 4650 always > quickly spins up after a short time of moderate desktop usage and never > noticeably spins down again (I need to restart the computer for this to > happen), making the laptop very noisy. This only happens with the Free > Software > radeon driver, unfortunately; the fglrx driver seems to control the fan > properly, but for technical and ideological reasons, I would like to use the > free driver instead. > > If this helps, the lm_sensors "sensors-detect" tool seems to find some i2c > thermal sensor chips belonging to the Radeon card, but only recommends the > "coretemp" module. (Loading it does not change anything.) I have attached the > output to sensors-detect if it helps. > > I have firmware-linux-nonfree installed (for the R600 firmware files). >
please try latest xorg radeon driver and the 2.6.38-rcX from experimental it has several radeon related enhancement. thanks for feedback. -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110309145950.gl16...@vostochny.stro.at
