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tux_mind
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:52 pm    Post subject: radeon overheat Reply with quote

hi all.
i have a strange trouble.
from a day to another my GPU temperature increase until heat watchdog shutdown the VGA.

i have a radeon HD6950, using the open source drivers with the last radeon-ucode package ( obviously i rebuilt the kernel after emerging it )
i have radeon drivers built into kernel [ 3.8.13-gentoo ].

i used a air compressor to clean the GPU, but the troubles persist.
i switched to windows which have proprietary drivers [ 13.4 ] and the temperature stay around 50°C.
on gentoo i tried to boot in single mode and "# watch sensors".
even without Xorg the temperature increase over 65°C.

i'll try to boot another linux distro in the next days. ( i lost my live USB :wink: )

for more infos:
kernel config
Xorg.0.log.old
messages ( cropped )

thanks in advance :)
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DaggyStyle
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

foss dpm support for radeon cards was committed in 3.11, this is still an unstable release so you'll either have to wait or take the plunge.

the best I can recommend you to do is to try reapplying the thermal paste between the cooling system and the gpu switch (that is what I do)
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also if you are not doing intensive stuff atm you could enable the low power profile for your current kernel until you switch to 3.11

Code:

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


It helps to keep my 4850 in my htpc be more silent and cool (and doesnt heat up the case and my cpu)
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