CPU power consumption and temperature way to high when using radeon drivers.
Submitted by tob..@..hoo.de
Assigned to xf86-video-ati maintainers
Description
On my laptop (HP Compaq 615, AMD M780G/Radeon HD3200, Athlon QL-66, OS: Slackware -current) the temperatures (and with that the power consumption) off the CPU are way to high and near the critical rate when I use the radeon drivers (I first thought the overheating is caused by the GPU, but after some tests that doesn't seem to be the case). The system works fine with the Catalyst drivers, about 15-20°C cooler than with the free drivers.
I don't know which information to include, so please inform me which additional information you need to make any sense out of this.