[ltp] "powerplay" under gnu/linux

[Thomas Breitner]

Am Montag, den 01.11.2004, 15:33 -0500 schrieb Alex Deucher:
> 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"

Ok, I'll wait till debian switch to xorg. or the ati-linux-driver-crew
release some fglrx which support DynamicClocks - whatever happens
first :-)

Thanks

> 
> > 
> > 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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