[ltp] "powerplay" under gnu/linux

[Justin Lintz]

Does this provide a lot better battery life?

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[mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of Alex Deucher
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 3:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [ltp] "powerplay" under gnu/linux


On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 21:17:59 +0100, Thomas Breitner <mail@tombreit.de>
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> on my thinkpad (with ati m10) i get some powermanagement features 
> under windows xp: named "powerplay", which supports gpu clock 
> throttling.
> 
> so:
> does anybody knows if this nice feature - i hardly use 3d-acceleration 
> - is supported under gnu/linux?

The xorg radeon driver (in xorg 6.8.0 and above) supports dynamic clock
scaling with feature called "DynamicClocks"

> 
> at the moment I use the prop fglrx-driver, but I would love to switch 
> to a driver which:
>         a) is debianized
>         b) offers 3d-acceleration

no open source 3d for r300 chips yet.  Some people are working on it, but
there is no working 3d driver yet: http://r300.sf.net

>         c) offers gpu clock-throttling

DynamicClocks option.  see above.


Alex

> 
> thanks in advance,
> thomas
> 
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