On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:26:32PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hello, > > Does someone know the current status of radeon power management in Linux? > and also the roadmap/todo? > > I have a laptop than runs *very* hot in Linux, while it's cool in Windows, > and the difference seems to be mostly about radeon graphics driver. > > The default power_profile makes the laptop run *very* hot, > and Linux does "thermal emergency shutdowns" pretty often. > > When I change the default radeon power_profile to "mid" or "low" the > temperature > goes down by 10-20 degrees celsius, but it's still more hot in Linux compared > to Windows. > > Some bugzillas from Fedora: > > "Computer becomes very hot (2011 27inch iMac)": > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702953 > > "radeon driver default power profile causes laptop overheating": > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714474 > > > My testing is done with Fedora 14 (Linux 2.6.35) and Fedora 15 (Linux 2.6.38). > > Thanks, >
Any thoughts about this? -- Pasi _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
