2010/7/1 Donato Capitella <[email protected]>: > Thanks, you are very helpful. And sorry for the overheat > misunderstanding, English is not my native language after all :P >
No worries. > There is something I still don't understand. Suppose I try to use the > 2.6.35 kernel... will things improve automagically or will I still > need to tweak options inside xorg.conf to lower the temperature? > You'll need to manually set a profile or enable dynpm via sysfs. See this for more: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-May/000492.html as of 2.6.35, there is now a mid profile as well. > Thanks a lot for your work. As I said before, your driver shows better > performances than the proprietary one on my laptop! Compiz, flash > player, graphic rendering... everything looks smoother :-) > Glad to hear it. Alex > Donato > > 2010/7/1 Alex Deucher <[email protected]>: >> 2010/7/1 Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>: >>> W dniu 1 lipca 2010 16:28 użytkownik Alex Deucher >>> <[email protected]> napisał: >>>> 2010/7/1 Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>: >>>>> W dniu 1 lipca 2010 12:08 użytkownik Donato Capitella >>>>> <[email protected]> napisał: >>>>>> Thanks for replying Rafal. I don't happen to be very expert with xorg >>>>>> power management, could you point to any relevant link? What options >>>>>> in xorg could be related to my issue? Has someone had this problem >>>>>> before? I could post here the output of some command to let you know a >>>>>> bit more about how my card and driver are working, but I don't know >>>>>> how. >>>>> >>>>> It's common problem, because by default GPU works in it's maximum >>>>> performance mode (highest engine clock, memory, voltage). Even when >>>>> you do not play any game, GPU won't downclock itself - it has to be >>>>> done by driver. >>>> >>>> >>>> The default clocks should be safe; that's why they are the defaults. >>>> However, dusty fans and heatsinks and poorly cooled cases could cause >>>> problems. The default clocks are not always the maximum clocks >>>> supported by the cards. There are "overclock" and performance modes >>>> that are higher than the defaults that we don't support at the moment. >>>> The driver currently caps then to the default clocks. >>> >>> I don't think Donato's problem is real overheating. That's what I >>> thought first while reading subject, but then I realized it's just >>> about higher temperature. >> >> Ah yes, I too skimmed through too quickly. Thanks, >> >> Alex >> > > > > -- > It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves. > _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
