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free_archer

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Registered: 2010-01-16

Posts: 3

ATI overheating! HP4515s

Hi there, arch hackers and maintainers!
I have a problem with my laptop HP4515s. I have successfully surmounted all the difficulties which have appeared on the road for half a year of its use, but, even after installing the official ATI Catalyst drivers, video card temperature rises to 85 or higher at the slightest load (virtualbox or google-earth)... Which periodically lead to instant shutdown ( apparently triggered the protection built into the laptop)
I have tried all combinations with free drivers.

Video card: "ATI M92 LP [Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series]"
Driver: catalyst-test  (from catalyst-test-xorg18 repository)
Xorg: xorg-server-1.8-catalyst-maximize-fix 1.8.0.902-1 (from same place)
WM: xmonad

rc.conf:

...
MODULES=(!snd-pcsp powernow-k8 vboxdrv fglrx cpufreq_ondemand)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond dbus hal openntpd 
mysqld httpd cpufreq laptop-mode)
...

xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Option "AIGLX" "true"
#  InputDevice    "SynapticsTouchpad"  "SendCoreEvents"

EndSection


Section "Module"
  Load  "glx"
  Load  "drm"
  Load  "dri"
  Load  "dbe"
  Load  "GLcore"
  Load  "freetype"
  Load  "extmod"
  Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"

    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"

EndSection

Section "Device"

  Identifier  "Catalyst"
  Option      "DRI" "on"
  Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "on"
     Option      "RenderAccel" "on"   
  Driver      "fglrx"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "Radeon Mobility"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option        "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    Option      "ClockGating" "on"  
    Option      "DynamicPM" "on"   
EndSection


Section "DRI"
    Group        "video"
  Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
 Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Catalyst"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

cat /proc/acpi/battery/*/* :

alarm:                   unsupported
present:                 yes
design capacity:         4400 mAh
last full capacity:      3394 mAh
battery technology:      rechargeable
design voltage:          14400 mV
design capacity warning: 200 mAh
design capacity low:     100 mAh
cycle count:          0
capacity granularity 1:  100 mAh
capacity granularity 2:  100 mAh
model number:            Primary
serial number:           00873 2009/10/16
battery type:            LIon
OEM info:                Hewlett-Packard
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          charging
present rate:            1955 mA
remaining capacity:      2847 mAh
present voltage:         16807 mV

Now yacpi:

GFXZ: 64 degrees C
CPUZ: 91 degrees C

But if I try to run anything else, like google-earth, I could fry an egg ...

Any body have HP 4515s notebook?

Last edited by free_archer (2010-07-03 15:32:29)

free_archer

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Registered: 2010-01-16

Posts: 3

Re: ATI overheating! HP4515s

Found that the video card overheating occurs during compilation, then it is a general rise in temperature from the CPU. The sensor on the processor broke down - permanently shows 91 degrees. Does anybody know how to configure cpufreq-utils in order to avoid overheating?

nomilieu

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Registered: 2010-07-03

Posts: 133

Re: ATI overheating! HP4515s

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cpufrequtils - The Archwiki page should let you know how to configure it.
You'll probably want to use the ondemand governor to avoid overheating.

[edit]Silly me. It looks like that's what you're already attempting to do. Perhaps someone with more knowhow can help.

Last edited by nomilieu (2010-07-07 23:28:22)

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Perry3D

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Registered: 2008-03-20

Posts: 553

Re: ATI overheating! HP4515s

    Option      "ClockGating" "on"  
    Option      "DynamicPM" "on"

This doesn't work anymore since KMS is enabled in the kernel. But you can append radeon.dynpm=1 to the kernel line to cool down your gpu. Or you disable KMS by appending nomodeset to the kernel line.

PaulStogov

Member

From: Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2009-12-26

Posts: 26

Re: ATI overheating! HP4515s

I had similar problem with my notebook.
First of all, if you use catalyst driver try to enable PowerPlay in amdcccle and use "Maximum battery" option. It will slow down the GPU and make it not so hot.
And another advice - disassemble your laptop, remove any dirt off the cooling system elements and place new grease on the both CPU and GPU. It helped me to decrease significantly the temperature of the CPU. Note that most of the notebooks have one shared cooling system for all their ICs.

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