Re: [ubuntu-x] Add tag for GPU fan related problems? [was: Tagging Xorg bugs (especially -intel)]

2009-05-08 Thread unggnu
Afaik the firmware is only static. I have used the http://www.techpowerup.com/rbe/ which uploads the firmware to the graphic flash memory but it should be used with caution! Powerplay is more than fan control. It scales down the gpu and even seems to disable shading units or similar because my car

Re: [ubuntu-x] Add tag for GPU fan related problems? [was: Tagging Xorg bugs (especially -intel)]

2009-05-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 06:51:50PM +0200, Martin Olsson wrote: > Someone posted this additional info in the bug btw (apparently there is some > upstream work on -ati power management that didn't make it into jaunty!): > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/373669/co

Re: [ubuntu-x] Add tag for GPU fan related problems? [was: Tagging Xorg bugs (especially -intel)]

2009-05-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:57:24AM -0400, Geir Ove Myhr wrote: > Sorry, forgot to change the recpeient to ubuntu-x the first time... > > > As a first step, how about adding a LP tag for bugs relating to fans? > > I would say that if two or more (non-duplicate) bugs have something in > common, it'

Re: [ubuntu-x] Add tag for GPU fan related problems? [was: Tagging Xorg bugs (especially -intel)]

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Olsson
Someone posted this additional info in the bug btw (apparently there is some upstream work on -ati power management that didn't make it into jaunty!): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/373669/comments/2 Also there is the old DynamicClocks option in xorg.conf but

[ubuntu-x] Add tag for GPU fan related problems? [was: Tagging Xorg bugs (especially -intel)]

2009-05-08 Thread Geir Ove Myhr
Sorry, forgot to change the recpeient to ubuntu-x the first time... > As a first step, how about adding a LP tag for bugs relating to fans? I would say that if two or more (non-duplicate) bugs have something in common, it's useful to have a tag for it. The usefulness of the "official" list is mos

Re: [ubuntu-x] Add tag for GPU fan related problems? [was: Tagging Xorg bugs (especially -intel)]

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Olsson
Thanks for the info unggnu.. Is there any reason why your modded firmware image can't ship in the ubuntu kernel? low 3D perf? does it permanently alter the hw or is it one of those firmware blobs that the kernel supplies every time on boot? While I don't think a tag can fix bugs it can help us ch

Re: [ubuntu-x] Add tag for GPU fan related problems? [was: Tagging Xorg bugs (especially -intel)]

2009-05-08 Thread unggnu
Hi, it has most likely something to do with Powerplay features of the ATI cards which isn't supported in the free driver and which is still not documented. So atm there isn't much they can do about it. But I heard that someone of the Ubuntu devs is working on this but without docs it will take

[ubuntu-x] Add tag for GPU fan related problems? [was: Tagging Xorg bugs (especially -intel)]

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Olsson
Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:08:04AM +0200, Martin Olsson wrote: >> Bryce Harrington wrote: >>> What does everyone think of the following list of tags for symptoms? >> What about cases when xorg fails to start but doesn't strictly crash. >> I'm thinking about stuff like "no