On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:20:31PM +0100, christoffer.buchholz(a)gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Matthew Garrett
<mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> There's two things that are at play here. The first is that we don't
> implement power management for nvidia GPUs yet, so your GPU is busy
> generating piles of heat all the time. The other is that Apple don't use
> any kind of standard thermal control interface. We can't control their
> fans through ACPI. We can influence their fan behaviour through the SMC
> interface, but we have no idea what the correct OS interaction behaviour
> is.
Can you say if and when power management for nvidia GPUs will come? Is
the work already started, and is it something I can try out?
Nouveau's gained some recently, but it's not stable enough to be done on
the fly as yet.
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