power management/fan speed

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:32 AM,  <rdxijn at yandex.ru> wrote:
> hello.
>
> I have an ati card - radeon 4890, but default driver fan speed is too high.
> What are available options to control and monitor fan sped and power state?
> Or at least is there any way to force one low power/fan sped mode, disabling
> driver and hardware auto adjusting.
>
> I'm using debian testing without kms. Is it safe to turn on kms, and will it
> help in may case?

There's currently no support for changing the fan speed.  The latest
development kms code has preliminary support for reclocking the GPU
which may result in lower fan speeds due to reduced heat.

Alex