overheat

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mit, 2012-06-27 at 13:08 +0200, Jacopo Corzani wrote: 
> Hi, my name is Jacopo.
> I wrote here because i've tried all possible things to resolve
> overheating problem of my ati card in linux.
> I have a laptop with radeon mobile 5600 hd and debian 6.
> The fan is always on and temperature is very high, after 10 minutes my
> laptop turn off automatically because overheating. There are some
> tricks to avoid that? Slow down my card? I don't use graphical app and
> it hangs also on text login after some time...

Have you read
http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature#KMS_Power_Management_Options ?


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