https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67982
Priority: medium Bug ID: 67982 Assignee: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org Summary: After boot, the APU is powered with its maximum voltage (trinity/ARUBA) Severity: normal Classification: Unclassified OS: Linux (All) Reporter: laszlo.kertesz at gmail.com Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Status: NEW Version: DRI CVS Component: DRM/Radeon Product: DRI Created attachment 83926 --> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=83926&action=edit Dmesg I have Debian Testing 64-bit with the latest git mesa, xf86-ati, libdrm and kernel 3.11 installed on a A8-5500 Trinity APU. Watching the sensors output right after logging in, i noticed that the voltage regulation doesnt actually work initially as the APU is powered by 1.34V (maximum possible with the radeon driver). Nothing is going on so it should have 0.9V (minimum voltage). This lasts until some event - for example forcing dpms off then on or switching vts to a text vt and back (probably some other events like playing video or something, but the dpms and vt switching is consistently working) makes voltage regulation kick in and start actually working lowering the APU voltage to 0.9 if idle then adjusting according to load and temperatures. The real problem this creates if increased temperatures - after making the voltage regulator work, the temperatures drop by as much as 10 C degrees in a few seconds. For reference - my sensors output lists ~17-18 C (not real obviously, seems that these sensors report accurately after the CPU is loaded)) CPU temperatures when idle and powered with 0.9 V. In contrast, right after boot and doing nothing for minutes, powered with 1.34 V i have ~26-27 C idle temperatures. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20130810/1e55cc09/attachment-0001.html>