Thanks again. This works and the heat has dropped substantially. It is still not as cool as I would like but this will do for now. I still need to file a bug report with the intel / apple gmux people.
-Evan On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Evan Foss <evanf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On the older kernel > > [ 6.494956] nouveau [ CLK][0000:01:00.0] 07: core 270-405 MHz > memory 838 MHz > [ 6.494989] nouveau [ CLK][0000:01:00.0] 0a: core 270-774 MHz > memory 1560 MHz > [ 6.495015] nouveau [ CLK][0000:01:00.0] 0e: core 270-774 MHz > memory 4000 MHz > [ 6.495182] nouveau [ CLK][0000:01:00.0] --: core 405 MHz memory 680 > MHz > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Evan Foss <evanf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Because I am on a macbook the VBIOS might be wonky. >> >> I tried turning off nVidia and using intel. The result was a blank >> screen. I know other people had the same bug which was something to do >> with reprobing lvds?! I saw patches go by and every time I tried one >> the results were the same. fail. I was actually about to post a bug >> report to the intel (i915) people about it. >> >> I tried to work out how to get optimus to work. After trying several >> different sets of instructions I never found a working configuration >> and put it aside. I never used to use opengl but lately my pcb >> software has adopted it so my needs changed. >> >> I will get back to you with more results on this matter after I get >> the newer kernel up. >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Evan Foss <evanf...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I have a side question which may be the subject of a future second bug >>>> report. I have been lurking on the nouveau mailing list for some time. >>>> I understand from various posts that the nvidia gpu clock speed right >>>> now is set to the lowest possible setting. Why does my machine run so >>> >>> Often but not always the case -- the clock speed is whatever the VBIOS >>> leaves it in. For kepler, that is usually the lowest setting. >>> >>>> much hotter in linux than macos? I turned off the intel graphics and >>>> the cpu clock is set to the lowest available speed. >>> >>> You should instead turn off the nvidia graphics and run off intel -- >>> intel is much less power-hungry than nvidia, even at the lowest >>> clocks. If it's an optimus setup, the nvidia gpu should automatically >>> power off until needed (either because some display is connected to >>> it, or for offloading). >>> >>>> >>>> How do I get a display of the GPU clocking speeds? >>> >>> You should see it in dmesg... look for CLK lines. The ones with -- (or >>> AC/DC) will show the current setting. Or boot with nouveau.pstate=1 >>> and you should have a /sys/class/drm/card*/device/pstate file. >>> >>> -ilia >> >> >> >> -- >> Home >> http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ >> Work >> http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/ > > > > -- > Home > http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ > Work > http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/ -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/ _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau