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jacopastorius82

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Registered: 2010-10-27

Posts: 31

spinning fans

I have a Dell studio 1555 with ATI 3540. I have installed xf86-video-ati and acpi, also acpid is loaded at startup. The problem is that after some minutes the laptop is on a fan start spinning and its speed increase with time. With debian and windows i have not this kind of problem.
I tried to install ati proprietary drivers by automatic method (sh ./ati...) but i can't get the installation process finishing correctly
What could i do?

Last edited by jacopastorius82 (2010-10-30 16:54:20)

lagagnon

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Re: spinning fans

Usually fan speed increase means increased CPU temperature.  Open a terminal and type "top" and watch to see if you have any processes that are using large amounts of CPU. If so what are they? Try killing them and see if that slows down the fan speed.

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hokasch

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Re: spinning fans

Look into cpufreq, and install the proprietary drivers from the repos instead of the script from ati.

jacopastorius82

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Registered: 2010-10-27

Posts: 31

Re: spinning fans

Thank you guys. I already configured cpu scaling with cpufreq and set up conservative governor. Are there proprietary driver on repos? Are they in AUR?

@lagagnon
yes, i'll chek processes with top and report you soon

ChoK

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Re: spinning fans

It's called catalyst and it's in AUR

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jacopastorius82

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Registered: 2010-10-27

Posts: 31

Re: spinning fans

i installed catalyst 10.10 but at the boot, after gdm starts, the system freezes with a balck screen. i can't open consoles with ctrl+alt+F2...keyboard not responding i think... I had been able to boot just 1 time.

Things i did were just install catalyst-utils and catalyst 10.10, remove ati-dri and libgl, loaded fglrx module at startup (in rc.conf) and created a xorg.conf specifying fglrx as driver

EDIT, SOLVED:

forgot to add nomodeset in /boot/grub/menu.lst

Just last question

when a kernel update will come, do i have to reinstall catalyst drivers?

Last edited by jacopastorius82 (2010-10-31 15:22:58)

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: spinning fans

If you have problems after a kernel upgrade, you have to reinstall the drivers.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AT … find_fglrx