On 08/15/2010 12:07 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote:
On 08/14/10 17:46, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches.
Signoff x86_64 , it seems to be working fine for me
(I had the impression that it might be heating up my laptop more than normal, but then I was doing backups last night, and I'm feeling a part of my laptop that I'm not sure if it's normally warm anyway. Is there a way to measure this? The estimated battery life from GNOME looks pretty normal, if that's an indication of heating by way of power-usage.)
-Isaac
Isaac, I do think you have a valid point on the heat issue. The fans on my laptop are notably louder with 2.6.35. Not by a bunch, but from quiet to a low "ssshhhhsshhhsshhh" that you cannot mistake. But given it runs great, it is a big step forward from my 2.6.34 woes... What type of video card do you have? I have a radeon rs690m that linux has never quite figured out. I'm curious if the new way the module handling is done doesn't mess up what little advances in idle downclocking that have been made. I know for a fact that in the 2.6.33 timeframe, the video-ati driver and the way the kernel handled it was spot-on. No fan noise and near fglrx performance. Now I know glxgears is not a performance measure, but it is a valid comparison between software configs on the same box. With fglrx, I get ~1100 FPS with the default glxgears window and dead silent fans. With video-ati, I get ~685 FPS which is *great* for the video-ati driver but with 2.6.35, I also get the fan noise. ( a year ago, good with video-ati or video-radeonhd was 300 FPS and the laptop was so hot it was nearly unusable without the fglrx driver). So performance is good and usable with video ati, but the fan noise with 2.6.35 is annoying and I can feel the excess heat in the palm-rest. It isn't near as bad as the hand-frying temps from a year ago, but it is something that was much better in 2.6.33 and now the temps/fan noise has crept up again. The kicker is temp issues are hard to chase down. Something is putting more demand on the processor in the 2.6.35 setup, but what?? This is a desktop independent issue because I can use gnome, kde3, fluxbox, etc.. and the fan noise and temp is consistent across the desktp. It could be anywhere in the system from a regression in the video-ati driver to a runaway loop in the kernel itself. I have no idea where to even began isolating this one other than booting to maintenance mode and adding modules one-at-a-time (which I would probably have to get much smarter on) If you can identify anything on your box that seems to influence the idle temps or fan noise, please document what you see and I'll collect the information and add it to what I have to hopefully narrow down where the additional heat is coming from. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com