maybe you should try to install the drivers made by ati/amd if it is not the one you are using ...
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.25.18.html http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx 2009/3/25 Christopher Nambale <[email protected]> > Thanks, > > Can see stuff to do with the temperature but nothing like fan/temperature > control. Anyway , let me click around some more. > > Cheers > > C > > --- On *Tue, 3/24/09, Ernest Mwirima Byaruhanga <[email protected]>* wrote: > > From: Ernest Mwirima Byaruhanga <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [LUG] Thermal events and ACPI > To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 7:49 PM > > > I had a similar issue years back on a Dell latitude and ubuntu 6.1? I remember > using gkrellm, which had a nice GUI that set at what temperatures each fan > should come on and off.. > -- > S60 Mobile (Nokia E71) > > -original message- > Subject: [LUG] Thermal events and > ACPI > From: Christopher Nambale <[email protected]> > Date: 24/03/2009 6:37 pm > > Hi all, > > I have a computer running Ubuntu 8:10 and the noise from the fan is killing > me. > When I run it in Vista the fan is more or less very quiet whatever I do. > However, once I switch to Ubuntu and run anything graphically intensive like a > short video the fan starts up and never goes away. So this has me thinking > that > this may be a Graphical Processor Fan that is giving me the heart burn. A few > pointers: > > Dmesg shows that ACPI is starting and locating the fans, please see attached > acpi.txt. > > Although the BIOS DSDT (which supposedly can be a source of problems) is > compiled with the Microsoft compiler (MSFT), I recompiled it with the Intel > compiler without any errors so that looks fine. > > a quick check on > cd /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THZN$ > $ cat trip_points > critical (S5): 105 C > > $ cat > state > state: ok <<even when the fan is blowing like mad. > > $ cat temperature > temperature: 34 C <<still blowing like mad at this > temperature yet fan switches on at 65+ > $cat polling_frequency > <polling disabled> > > > etc etc I cannot change any of these values though. The graphics driver is an > ATI proprietary driver that looks old? > $ dmesg |grep ATI > [ 25.826085] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI > Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel. > $ fglrxinfo > display: :0.0 screen: 0 > OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. > OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon X1200 Series > OpenGL version string: 2.1.8087 Release > > The computer is a Toshiba satellite with an AMD Turion (64) and the graphics > card is an ATI Radeon X1250. > > Thanks in advance. > > CN > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > > <<ACPI.txt>> > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > >
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