Bug 101987 - Loud fan and maximum GPU fan speed
Summary: Loud fan and maximum GPU fan speed
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: DRI
Classification: Unclassified
Component: DRM/Radeon (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Default DRI bug account
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Reported: 2017-07-31 16:22 UTC by damian.szymanski.ds
Modified: 2019-11-19 09:30 UTC (History)
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hw-info detalis log (391.93 KB, text/plain)
2017-07-31 16:22 UTC, damian.szymanski.ds
no flags Details
log from inxi -fx (2.18 KB, text/plain)
2017-07-31 16:23 UTC, damian.szymanski.ds
no flags Details

Description damian.szymanski.ds 2017-07-31 16:22:12 UTC
Created attachment 133152 [details]
hw-info detalis log

Hi.

Sorry for all mistake but Im newbie ans sorry for my poor english.

I have Radeon HD 5850 and I think something is wrong with him. So even with minimal GPU load, the fan seems to be spinning up to maximum speed, and the fan itself does not mercilessly make a lot of noise but only on open source driver with Mesa. On old legacy fglrx driver all is fine, same as on Windows OS. So I think worth to report this issue.

For explain.

From last time I still use AMD Catalyst driver, because I have this issues with open source driver. My Linux distro Mageia 5 still provide fglrx driver, so I still use it but now they release Mageia 6 and old Mageia 5 is supported only for next 3 months. So I need to upgrade or swith distro.

Trying few times install on second partitions other Linux distros like Ubuntu 16.04 and 17.04 and Mageia 6 and OpenMandriva LX3 but with this all distro I have still the same issue - noisy gpu fan and almost 100% speed on even low gpu load. So only old Mageia 5 with fglrx or Windows 7 OS can get me silence when I try watch movie, browse internet or playing games.

For example, when I start game (e.g free) Dota 2 on Mageia 5 with fglrx, and play it my GPU is silence and the fan is barely audible.
But when I boot to other Linux with open source driver with mesa like Ubuntu/Mageia6/OpenMandriva and just start game, even in dota2 main menu I hear the fan spin faster, and faster and faster causing a lot of noise.
This is on all games and movies in vlc, smplayer or mpv, even on chromium/chrome or firefox.

Trying various mesa version and few version of kernel. Still the same.

So if on Linux with fglrx is all fine and if on Windows 7 all is fine and only with Linux with Radeon+Mesa have issue, so it is a bug?

Sorry guys, Im newbie and I don't know what I should doing with. Bug? Not a bug? Any solution or fix? Or maybe should I get more info?

Help :)
Comment 1 damian.szymanski.ds 2017-07-31 16:23:20 UTC
Created attachment 133153 [details]
log from inxi -fx
Comment 2 mirh 2017-08-23 13:24:22 UTC
Bug 41762, bug 66963, bug 90263. 

If you want to still keep fglrx driver (or nevertheless experiment with toggling open-source one) *and* an updated operating system, I'd recommend Manjaro.
Comment 3 fin4478 2017-12-27 02:44:30 UTC
Here is the source code of the radeon kernel driver:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon?h=drm-next-4.16-wip

Locate the fan handling code for your cpu and try to figure how to fix it.

How to make a custom kernel package, see message at 2017-12-22 18:53:16 CST:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43995
Comment 4 Martin Peres 2019-11-19 09:30:00 UTC
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