https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29412
--- Comment #4 from Jon Dowland jon+bugzilla.kernel.org@alcopop.org 2012-03-17 11:27:26 --- Ok retesting v2.6.32-rc1 first, I had trouble building it (gcc 4.6 won't work); trouble getting the initramfs to work, and trouble getting X to start (some kind of race condition / bad failure mode in the gdm3 init script launched ~300 Xorg instances before I killed it).
However, I could reproduce the issue without X: single-user mode, no radeon module loaded: fans climbed down as they should. Single-user mode, radeon driver loaded: fans didn't climb down.
I'll check v2.6.32-rc1^ next, then I'll collect dmesg/Xorg.0.logs as appropriate.
(I confirmed this with 3.3~rc6-1~experimental.1 in the mean time)