Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I recently got myself an HD4870 (for Wintendo gaming; I'm on Linux when not gaming). I'm on radeonhd git master and the card's fan is spinning up all the time. That means the card runs too hot. In Windows XP, the fan is silent with the GPU idling at ~80C. That means in Linux the GPU runs a lot hotter than that *all the time*. Isn't this dangerous? The last thing I want is readonhd frying my expensive hardware.
I didn't know that the "radeon" driver works with this card. I switched to it and it works much better (fan stays at constant speed instead of up-down-up-down all the time and the card doesn't hang when logging out of X. Also, the desktop doesn't become totally skippy and slow when I have a CPU-intensive process running.) I'm beginning to wonder what the radeonhd driver is good for :P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org