[ltp] "powerplay" under gnu/linux

[obi]

Powerplay gives me an extra 15-25 minutes on the normal 6 cell battery (I
have a T41). And my machine stays cooler (less fan activity). 

graziano

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 06:34:03PM -0500, Justin Lintz wrote:
> Well I can tell you in windows when I have all the power saving settings at
> the max I can get close to 7 hours of battery life on my t40p with a 9 cell
> battery.  In linux I can get close to 5.  I doubt that powerplay provides an
> extra 2 hours of battery life.  I wonder what else I could tweak to get
> battery life closer to that of windows.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org
> [mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of Thomas
> Breitner
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 4:28 PM
> To: linux-thinkpad
> Subject: RE: [ltp] "powerplay" under gnu/linux
> 
> 
> > Does this provide a lot better battery life?
> 
> don't know, never used it under windows. and: can't imagine that i can
> compare my thinkpad-on-battery-life under win and under debian.
> 
> but it seems very useless to have a 300mhz-gpu-clockrate for doing
> text-processing.
> 
> but: really hope it get's even more out of my battery than it get's at the
> moment.
> 
> please let me know if you try it under win with and without powerplay
> enabled, thomas
> 
> 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org
> > [mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of Alex 
> > Deucher
> > Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 3:34 PM
> > To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> > 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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