[ltp] Ati Radeon Powerplay and X.org

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:38:06 -0400


On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:55:55 +0200, Konstantin <mailoperator@uni.de> wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I've installed the latest CVS from X.org on my T40 2373-8cg running Debian Sid.
> 
> My Radeon is a Radeon 7500.
> 
> X.org works fine, I've used this site and it worked great:
> http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=204593
> 
> As told on the list and on this page I enabled the Powerplay with
> http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vbraun/computing/T41/power.html
> 
> Option      "DynamicPM" "True"
> 
> I've tried also
> 
> Option      "DynamicPM" "Always"
> 

the name of the option changed to "DynamicClocks".  it should be set
to true to enable it.

Alex

> as told here:
> http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96
> 
> but I get only this one in the Xorg.0.log
> 
> (II) RADEON(0): Dynamic Clock Scaling Disabled
> (WW) RADEON(0): Option "DynamicPM" is not used
> 
> Also the binaries for both sites doesn't work, the whole system hangs after the start of Xwindows.
> 
> Any idea how to fix this or any people I can contact to this problem???
> 
> Greetz
> 
> Konstantin
>