Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (169 mails)

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@xxxxxxxx>]

Egbert Eich wrote:
> 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.

The fan spins up and down constantly (~6 seconds up, 6 seconds down). 
Fan control is AFAIK BIOS controlled.  If it's hot, it spins up.

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