You can enable power management for your AMD/ATI Radeon hardware by using one of the methods described at http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#index3h2
The first two methods are only rudimentary but are available now. The 3rd (dpm) method is much better and is available (for AMD/ATI Radeon R600 and newer hardware) in the upstream 3.11 linux kernel. The third release candidate (3.11-rc3) of the 3.11 kernel is available at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ and instructions on how to install and uninstall it are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds To use this power management for the AMD/ATI Radeon you will need to select it at boot by adding radeon.dpm=1 to your GRUB kernel boot options as described at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Troubleshooting#Editing_the_GRUB_2_Menu_During_Boot To use the new power management feature on R700 and newer hardware (other than APUs) also requires installation of the latest AMD graphics microcode (ucode) files to /lib/firmware/radeon These are available at http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ Get the version ending in "smc". R700 basically means Radeon HD 4000 series and newer. However note that according to Wikipedia and http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#index5h2 the Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250 is a RV620 chip, so anyone with one of those shouldn't need the updated firmware files. See the blog post at http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=57 for further information. Unlike the older dynpm method, the new DPM method works with multiple monitors and there shouldn't be any flickering as the performance level changes are handled by dedicated hardware rather than the driver. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1201888 Title: Critical temperature 99 reached shutting down Status in “xserver-xorg-video-ati” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Fresh install, after updates and reboot while copying files from external hard drive Xubuntu decided to shut down instead of frying the gpu. I don't have temperature problems in Windows or with proprietary drivers. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.99.99~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-36.57-generic 3.5.7.14 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-36-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu11 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Jul 16 19:59:35 2013 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-16 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/1201888/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
