Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:20:06 -0500 From: Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: 6970 fan on "liftoff" mode constantly. Message-ID: <CACpH0MdFw_QFaWBXdh%2BjVfv%2B%2B0Cikp_EMJSQpVb8djmQ2QxnZQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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?
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