Hello! The main reason that's kept me from installing a Linux operating system on my desktop pc used to be that my ATi HD 4870 idle temperatures used to be insanely high - usually over 70C. Hearing of the new power management features in kernel 3.11 I got very excited.
Hoping the temperature issues would be a problem of the past I installed the new openSuse 13.1 and enabled DPM (by adding 'radeon.dpm=1' to the optional kernel options line in the boot manager). The OS booted up nicely and dmesg showed that dpm had been initialized. However, using sensors (or the kde temperature monitoring widget) the temperature is still 80C in idle.
Am I doing it wrong?
Hoping the temperature issues would be a problem of the past I installed the new openSuse 13.1 and enabled DPM (by adding 'radeon.dpm=1' to the optional kernel options line in the boot manager). The OS booted up nicely and dmesg showed that dpm had been initialized. However, using sensors (or the kde temperature monitoring widget) the temperature is still 80C in idle.
Am I doing it wrong?