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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:22:41AM -0000, Vitaly Zawullon Katraev wrote:
> When i use opensource driver for ATI card - notebook fan always spinning
> and themperature of outgoing from fan air is very high, even when I set
> /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile to low and cpu mode to
> powersave. With proprietary drivers (fglrx) I set video card performance
> to "ondemand" (I forgot the exact name of this mode in ATI control
> center) and cpu mode to ondemand, and notebook isn`t hot, fans not
> spinning (if I not start flash, games or some similar app with high cpu
> load). So with fglrx I can use notebook from battery 1,5-2 hours and
> it`s not hot, but with opensource driver battery of notebook is down in
> 50 minutes, fan is olways on, it noise is loud, and notebook is very
> hot.

Great, thanks.  Also, when did you first start noticing this issue with
the open source driver?  (Or has it always been this way with your
hardware when running this driver?)

Fwiw, I think this may be a known issue with -ati.  (I've burnt out a
card or two due to this or a similar issue myself.)