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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 9:34 pm    Post subject: Fan control on Dell Studio 1555 Reply with quote

After I moved from the fglrx drivers to the radeon drivers I note that my fans are running like crazy. I also note that the temperature is way higher than before, despite the louder blowing. So, there is probably inefficient cooling going on.

This is probably because I forgot some option in the kernel that regulates the GPU temperature. However, I'm at a loss as to how to fix it. Where do I start?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 9:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe start here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Power_management

Search the wiki for ACPI and sensors as well. APM is supposed to be deprecated, but you'll see it out there, sometimes you have to use it. I managed to replace it completely with ACPI. Lots of things re power management really, so have a read.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gabrielg wrote:
Maybe start here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Power_management

Search the wiki for ACPI and sensors as well. APM is supposed to be deprecated, but you'll see it out there, sometimes you have to use it. I managed to replace it completely with ACPI. Lots of things re power management really, so have a read.


The linked document is really just a springboard to other articles. I followed the Radeon and CPU ones and... nothing much happened.

I enabled the CPU frequency scaling and ticks as described here.
I also read this bit about the Radeon powermanagement, although it only proposes to let the graphics card less fast, which is a ridiculous workaround really.

Are there other solutions?
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unfortunately not. Use "mid" power profile.

echo "mid" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mbar wrote:
Unfortunately not. Use "mid" power profile.

echo "mid" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile

So, I either downgrade X and keep at that forever, turn down the capabilities of the card, or I "live with it".

Yay, go go AMD/ATI :roll:
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you use your laptop for gaming under Linux?
If not, then radeon driver is better choice than Catalyst.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mbar wrote:
Do you use your laptop for gaming under Linux?
If not, then radeon driver is better choice than Catalyst.

Why is that when the radeon drivers turn my laptop in a jumbojet?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, I went for the following "solution" after the noise was slowly but surely driving me nuts:

Code:
echo "low" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile


The temperature at least drops to below 65C, so the fan drops to acceptable noise levels.

However, if I remember correctly, I'll need to do that each time after a reboot. So, where do I set it to become permanent?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

create executable script "radeon-powersave.start" in /etc/local.d

Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo mid > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile


You can alternatively use auto if you can live with screen flickering.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mbar wrote:
create executable script "radeon-powersave.start" in /etc/local.d

Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo mid > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile


You can alternatively use auto if you can live with screen flickering.


Ah yes, thanks :)
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