Thermal Monitoring Comes To Newer Radeon DRM

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Thermal Monitoring Comes To Newer Radeon DRM

Over the past few days we have had a number of new open-source ATI Radeon support upbringings to report on including the ATI R600/700 Gallium3D driver being merged, voltage control for managing the power on newer ATI GPUs, and the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series Mesa code coming soon, but the slew of open-source ATI news is not over yet...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODMxMQ

[RealNC]

How do I read the temp after applying the patch?

[Sacha]

Check your sysfs for a temperature readout.
It will be some file on sysfs that you need to cat.

Depending on how it is exposed, temperature monitor programs should be able to utilise it. Otherwise, they'll have to be updated.

[agd5f]

Make sure you are using v2 of the patch. It will show up as another hwmon device. See the /sys/class/hwmon. It should work with existing hwmon utilities.

[bugmenot2]

This is what I've waited for so long, thank you!

[monraaf]

Cool it's working.

$ echo high > /sys/class/drm/card1/device/power_profile
wait a little...
$ cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input
[B]65[/B]000

$ echo low > /sys/class/drm/card1/device/power_profile
wait a little...
$ cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input
[B]61[/B]000

$ echo minimum > /sys/class/drm/card1/device/power_profile
wait a little...
$ cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input
[B]47[/B]000

Also shows up in GNOME Sensors Applet.

[HokTar]

Wow, step by step we get all the functionality! Thank you Alex and everybody working on oss radeon!

[Fixxer_Linux]

There is many dev made around open-source ATI driver, but still no 3D acceleration. I can't wait playing my games with open-source stack and getting ride of fglrx.
I'm no dev at all, but why is it so long to develop a 3D driver, knowing that ATI released the specs for doing it more than a year ago?

[r1348]

There is many dev made around open-source ATI driver, but still no 3D acceleration. I can't wait playing my games with open-source stack and getting ride of fglrx.
I'm no dev at all, but why is it so long to develop a 3D driver, knowing that ATI released the specs for doing it more than a year ago?

3d acceleration is missing only on Evergreen, and according to recent news, it's coming soon...

[Vii7]

This is good news, hope I can add it to conky.