Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (169 mails)

[Egbert Eich <eich@xxxxxxx>]

Nikos Chantziaras writes:
> 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.

It only means that there is just no fan control in the driver, yet.

Cheers,
        Egbert.
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