On 13.06.2012 16:44, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 14:43:18 +0200, > Mateusz Marzantowicz <mmarzantowicz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reply. I'm now trying to identify which fan is noisy. The >> problem is that I already have latest BIOS update installed and week ago >> on Ubuntu 12.04 I had no such problem with fans going to fast. My load >> avg is 2.0 at max (3 kvms running but not so busy) and long term CPU >> utilization is below 5%-10%. The only difference is that previously I >> had AMD Catalyst driver installed for Radeon HD 5750 and now I'm using >> the default Open Source driver, so I'll be investigating graphics at >> first. I also noticed that video card is warmer than other parts of my >> set but it might be a false alarm. Thanks anyway for the reply. > > If it's you GPU fan that is running at high speed, that makes more > sense. Graphics card power management is still a work in progress. > There are a lot of improvements coming down the pike, that should make > it for F18. > > Looking at http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature it looks like power > management features are complete for evergreen (HD5xxx). It also looks > like you can set a profile by storing a value into > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method . It might be worth playing > with that. Hey! It works! My video card is quiet again (I can hear my hard drive working again :) )! Now I must find out how to make this changes to /sys persistent across system reboots. Then see if there is some stock Fedora/X.org tool to make this changes in more elegant manner (I use echo for this.) Mateusz Marzantowicz -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
