Description of problem: On my Dell XPS M1530 laptop with a nVidia 8600M GT graphic card, fan never slows down. I think it's the medium level of fanning, when F12 with nouveau or F13 and Win7 with nvidia use the lowest level. However my Core 2 Duo CPU is quite cool, i.e. less than 60°C. Even if it's 49°C, fan doesn't slow. If I restart on Windows, the fan slows down within a minute. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.0.16-3.20100305git6b8b157.fc13.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot. 2. Listen to fan speed. Actual results: Fan speed is too high. Expected results: Same fan speed as on F12. Additional info: F12 have no problem like this with nouveau, so it's a regression. I think it can be a duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583956: when the reportee see high temperature, I see high use of graphic card without any reason, resulting in an high temperature which is not compensating by very high fan speed but medium fan speed.
Created attachment 408590 [details] My X.org log
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Nouveau doesn't touch *anything* related to fanspeed control, and uses the exact same clocks/fan speeds as are initialised by the VBIOS, so I'm not entirely sure how you're seeing a difference in speed here.
Thank you for your response. I'm seeing a difference in speed thanks to the fan noise. It's totally imprecise, I know. However I'm absolutely sure that fan speed is higher with F13 Nouveau than with F12 Nouveau (and F13 nVidia). With F12 Nouveau or F13 nVidia : lowest level and sometimes a rush. With F13 Nouveau : always medium level. Maybe it's not Nouveau, or maybe Nouveau uses more the GPU than before. I will give a new try to Nouveau today.
New try : same problem. I made something like 5 reboots (with and without KMS). /var/log/messages have 2 recursive lockings, so I join it. Bugs for these are https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586488 (K99cpuspeed) and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572220 (Xorg). I join other logs too.
Created attachment 409553 [details] Xorg log
Created attachment 409554 [details] dmesg log
Created attachment 409565 [details] last messages log with recursive lock Really slow speed from my side, so I just send last /var/log/messages lock.
This report is the same as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529973. However, the latter refers to Fedora 12 release. I will close this bug and update the version on the other one, you are welcome to post your issues there. This bug has been triaged -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 529973 ***