Originally posted by pingufunkybeat
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Notebook: Sony Vaio SR21M
With FGLRX I never had heat-related problems (32-33 degrees, don't remember exactly), but previously with the radeon open source DDX and DRM module it quickly went up as high as 46 degrees just a few minutes after boot, then 48 and 50 degrees. I wanted to test the development of the driver, so I always damned hell and all its demons in removing FGLRX, then really removing all of it, compiling new linux kernel, applying patches, then DDX, mesa... I was thinking I just was irreparably mad at testing the development of the driver on a notebook.
Then the gods, erh... the developers, wrote the code for the ForceLowPowerMode and DynamicPMOrSomething options for the DDX, and I was all hip and cool trying that in UMS. KMS was just heaven at the time.
Then these patches hath descended from the heavens, and now I can write on my notebook without burning it and my wrists to ashes. All while using KMS, and all that comes thereafter. Writing in a Firefox window, with a LAMP stack running in the background, I'm currently experiencing 37 celsius degrees.
Thank you all.
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