Re: [Mactel-linux-users] macbook pro v2.1 ati weirdness

[Justin P. M. <jus...@gm...>]

Jonas Petersson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 00:16, k11stan <k1...@gm...> wrote:
>   
>> hey every1 - occasionally if I do not boot to osx for an extended period of
>> time (roughly a month), the fan behavior (and likely also throttling) seems
>> to get very weird ( the fans randomly rev up , the temps seem to spike , and
>> the whole setup gets really unstable) .. after i boot to osx the problem
>> seems to go away .. is there any way to preserve the nvram values that osx
>> likes to set ? I'm using 2.6.25 with mactel patches and version 8.51.3 of
>> fglrx .. I throttle the card using radeontool ...thanx for any suggestions
>>     
>
> I guess this is no real help, but for reference I can say that the
> fans on my ATI-based MBP (2,2) were also acting up now and then. I
> didn't boot into OSX a lot, so where that is related I have no idea.
> However, I can say that my current MacBookPro4,1 (nVidia based) is a
> LOT more sane when it comes to fans - and even when they spin up (due
> to occasional high load) they don't make nearly as much noise. On the
> downside, I never had any "applesmc: wait status failed" messages on
> the old system, whereas it seems that polling this info (fans, temps
> etc) fail - and then retry successfully - quite often now. I don't
> know whether this is actual HW differences or if the driver just works
> differently in newer kernels. BTW: I have not booted OSX on this box
> for at least 3 months.
>
>              Hope this was of some use for someone / Jonas
>
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>   
 From here I don't experience any anomaly's
accept when configured wrong.

(on a clean system(debootstrap));
I usually just apt-get powersaved
then adduser "yourename" powerdev;
then all is good.
(issues: when running anything with flashplayer
do a powersave -e Powersave; powersave -l);

then you should have the fans under-control.

regards;

Justin P. Mattock