[ltp] T60 power management (fglrx, aticonfig --set-powerstate )

[Nils Kanning]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 10:16 +0200, Andreas Billmeier wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:35:21 +0200 Kasper Peeters <kasper.peeters@aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> 
> > I had problems with all ati drivers up to 8.27.10. With that one,
> > powersave seems to work.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i still have little Problems (flickering letters) with 8.27.10,
> this always happens when i switch back to a text console from a running X
> 
> Has anybody seen this, too ?
> 
> i currently got:
> xorg-x11-6.9.0-50.17 and the (evil) ati-driver 8.27.10-x86.
> 
> ys
> \B.

i also updated to fglrx 8.27.10 yesterday (build for sid). starting at
powerstate 3 i can switch to 1 and 2. if i'm in 1 or 2 i cannot go back
to 3. if i try that i get some kind of "corrupted screen" (thin green
and yellow lines ...).
if i try to switch to a console i get a blank screen.
at least switching to powerstate 1 decreases my battery rate about
0,5-0,7w

together with wifi power management (as suggested by kasper) and setting
the brightness to level 5 i'm at 18,3w now.