[ltp] [Power management] DynamicClocks

Greg Macek linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:13:51 -0500


What kind of temperature differences are you seeing when DynamicClocks
is running vs. not? It says it's enabled for me, but I'm not sure what
benefit I'm really seeing.

Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 10:26 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> 
>>Interesting, My R40 says this:
>>/sbin/lspci | grep ATI
>>0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility 
>>M6 LY
>>
>>grep -i Dynamic /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>>(**) RADEON(0): Option "DynamicClocks" "On"
>>(II) RADEON(0): Dynamic Clock Scaling Enabled
>>
>>Very subjectively, temperature of machine on lap, it seems to be a lot cooler 
>>when the DynamicClocks are one,
> 
> 
> Yeah, I see similar results on my X31. The GPU is much cooler when
> DynamicClocks is on, which indicates that it is indeed functioning.
> 
>  ./Brix