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On 27/06/2013 12:00, Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 27 Jun 2013 09:19:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 26/06/2013 16:28, Mick wrote: |
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>>> cat /etc/local.d/set_radeon_power_profile.start |
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>>> echo auto > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile |
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>> I did try that once, and somehow it went horribly wrong - the machine |
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>> became *very* unresponsive to keyboard and mouse, as if it was applying |
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>> huge amounts of CPU throttling (not freq scaling) |
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> Hmm ... interesting. I do not get any such problems. I have set up |
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> /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method to 'profile' and power_profile to |
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> 'auto' as shown above and the fan behaviour is comparable to MSWindows. Are |
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> you sure you did not try 'low' instead of 'auto'? |
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> Perhaps leaving power_profile at default and using 'dynpm' at power_method may |
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> work better? Have a look here: |
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> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI |
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I'll give that a try. |
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I may have just had bad luck back when or even done it wrong. I don't |
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*really* need this to work, I only brought it up because the OCD |
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engineer in me freaks out with optimizations I find I can't use. And |
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also because many other folk do need maximum battery life |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |