On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 07:20:16PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hello, > > I have a laptop with Mobility Radeon HD 3650, and the opensource radeon driver makes > the laptop overheat and crash (or kernel does thermal emergency shutdowns). > Even when the laptop is totally *idle* the system overheats! > > As a default power_profile "default" is in use (and causes problems): > # cat /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile > default > > I can workaround the issue with: > # echo low > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile > > .. which makes the temperature go down 10-20 degrees celsius, > and the fans slow down and the system feels much cooler. > > I've seen this problem with Linux 2.6.35 (Fedora 14), Linux 2.6.38 (Fedora 15) > and Linux 3.0.0 (Fedora 16 alpha). > > Is there anything I should try to troubleshoot the problem? > Is "default" power_profile supposed to cause overheating? > > Using proprietary AMD fglrx driver doesn't have this problem, > fglrx works out-of-the-box and the laptop does not overheat. > > dmesg from Linux 3.0.0 here: http://pasik.reaktio.net/fedora/f16/dmesg-hp-elitebook-8530p-f16-alpha.txt > Ping? -- Pasi _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
