Bug 108605

Summary: R9 380 fan speed is either 100% or very low, during moderate usage gets too loud
Product: DRI Reporter: Christos Kotsaris <christos.kotsaris>
Component: DRM/AMDgpuAssignee: Default DRI bug account <dri-devel>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Just a few logs from my pc as per AMD reporting bugs instructions none

Description Christos Kotsaris 2018-10-30 18:53:22 UTC
Created attachment 142283 [details]
Just a few logs from my pc as per AMD reporting bugs instructions

I noticed that when i am playing a video game, the gpu fan seems to be quiet for around 10-20 seconds, then gets too loud for around 3-4s, then back to idle, and this repeats until i quit the game. Upon examination i found out that for some reason the automated dpm sets the fan too low until temperature rises too much (around 100C), then it sets the fan speed to 100% (around 3500RPM), it drops rapidly, and the cycle goes on and on like this.

I tried setting the fan speed manually through:

echo "1" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/hwmon/hwmon2/pwm1_enable
and
echo "X" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/hwmon/hwmon2/pwm1

and found out that for my card the only values that seem to work are: higher than 199 (sets the fan speed to max) and lower than 196 (sets the fan speed to around 150-190RPM, the lowest my fan will go)

I think this is a bug, i don't have a Windows partition anymore but i don't remember ever having this issue on Windows. My GPU is a Sapphire R9 380 ITX Compact 2GB. I am using 4.18.16 kernel and 18.2.3 MESA on Archlinux.
Comment 1 Martin Peres 2019-11-19 09:01:00 UTC
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