possible i915kms regressions (moved from questions@)

[Patrick Powell]

On 04/24/15 08:54, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
> Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh at gmail.com> writes:
>> Have you tried setting
>> drm.i915.enable_rc6=7
>> in /boot/loader.conf?
> I just did after your message.
>
>> If you have it enabled, you would see
>> info: [drm] Enabling RC6 states: RC6 on, RC6p on, RC6pp on
>> in messages. It helped me reducing the GPU temperature.
> Before today I saw, e.g.,
>
> Mar 31 20:07:07 phe kernel: info: [drm] Enabling RC6 states: RC6 off,
> RC6p off, RC6pp off
>
> now I see
>
> Apr 24 12:34:14 phe kernel: info: [drm] Enabling RC6 states: RC6 on,
> RC6p on, RC6pp on.
>
> Now the temperatures, like before the upgrade, are in a normal range.
> Thank you for the tip Henry, much appreciated.
>
> Joseph
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