From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 13 01:20:07 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3879B2E2 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:20:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x235.google.com (mail-ob0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 03B301B73 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:20:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f181.google.com with SMTP id uy5so1281324obc.26 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:20:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Ls6PPHz8bLzrZ/K76CtchX6fUxGDaAaOQk+qkyjMAhA=; b=r4Ps685+6QzNqq/LzAixs4F1lfOTaLTuL/tpaqdssfAA0O9SonVeAxMy9MZV5ya2lg oPcB9ngmxZ8aCuFtfTD7DCw28Kb5Kkm3AHaEeLtyjjXXYai4QDEb8/UDV2or1dViiZuq KLBzhZoAIP2xe9PzI0pLcPjlzAVEAjfalhnShKfkbiCSgbXkF60aEvQYpoj4uQO4KD55 XCfbLP4SAMZUI/tehMbWQAeES0HAZ9JOuE515GnJVf3ARnD0Ap1MciV2UTdeiKM0+4oD bA9Qtj8VcD4Xog3u4u69qkI5PwWIe1Y1Ylc1dVJXcp8+tj+B4utE9GuKBovM6s8McInw cgLA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.116.230 with SMTP id jz6mr7805690oeb.21.1386897606219; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:20:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.90.4 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:20:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:20:06 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: 6970 fan on "liftoff" mode constantly. From: Zaphod Beeblebrox To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:20:07 -0000 So I have 10.0-RC1 installed on my i7 workstation which has a 6970 as it's video card. I have built everything with "WITH_NEW_XORG" and I'm fairly happy with it ... As far as I can tell, things are working. GLClock works nicely. I don't know where to find glgears, but I suspect that it's not going to be the best measure of the performance of a a card like this. 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. Somewhere around BETA4, I could start firefox ... and something that I did with firefox would "stall" the event queue of the driver --- and this stall causes a reset --- and the reset causes the fan to return to normal levels. But this no longer happens in -RC1. I suppose it's good that the driver queue doesn't stall, but it's annoying that the fan is terribly noisy. Is there any way we can get the fan set sensibly?