Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 08:52:54 -0600 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DS=E9bastien_P=E9dron?= <dumbbell@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11 <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6970 fan on "liftoff" mode constantly. Message-ID: <CAOFF%2BZ3AkNGy3FheHNrm959RjNVm%2B=miXV=0H_yvw4YmizFYng@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52AB1552.3010702@FreeBSD.org> References: <CACpH0MdFw_QFaWBXdh%2BjVfv%2B%2B0Cikp_EMJSQpVb8djmQ2QxnZQ@mail.gmail.com> <52AB1552.3010702@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Jean-S=E9bastien P=E9dron <dumbbell@freebs= d.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 "squirr= el > > cage" fan on the video card is set on "liftoff" mode. Now ... sometime= s > > ... when playing a particularly difficult game, the fan gets to 100%, b= ut > > 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-S=E9bastien P=E9dron > > 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. --=20 Sam Fourman Jr.
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