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tux_mind n00b
Joined: 26 Feb 2012 Posts: 21
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:52 pm Post subject: radeon overheat |
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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 )
for more infos:
kernel config
Xorg.0.log.old
messages ( cropped )
thanks in advance |
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DaggyStyle Watchman
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5909
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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 5:28 am Post subject: |
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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) _________________ Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein |
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Maitreya Guru
Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 441
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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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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
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echo "low" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
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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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