From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Peres Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable hwmon support when both nouveau and hwmon are built as modules. Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:04:45 +0200 Message-ID: <4E19BF8D.6090205@free.fr> References: <4E10BAE4.8000506@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E10BAE4.8000506-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org To: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org Le 03/07/2011 20:54, Ken Milmore a =E9crit : > The nouveau hwmon temperature support currently only functions when hwmon= is > compiled into the kernel. There's no reason why this shouldn't also work = when > both hwmon and nouveau are modularised (as is the case with Slackware's s= tock > kernels). The patch below worked for me on 2.6.38.7. Looks good to me but I can't commit it. > > BTW, I notice that nouveau idles my 8600GT at around 71C, which is 18C ho= tter > than the Nvidia blob driver. Running some intensive OpenGL (Sauerbraten) = caused > the temperature to reach 85C in a few minutes. The blob rarely goes above= 80C, > even after extended use. We are working on power management, it is all but simple ;)