[ltp] [Power management] DynamicClocks

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 21:11:24 -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> 
> > Interesting, My R40 says this:
> > /sbin/lspci | grep ATI
> > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility 
> > M6 LY
> 
> 	And here is mine: 
> 
> # /sbin/lspci | grep ATI
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NT 
> [FireGL Mobility T2] (rev 80)
> 
> > grep -i Dynamic /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> > (**) RADEON(0): Option "DynamicClocks" "On"
> > (II) RADEON(0): Dynamic Clock Scaling Enabled
> 
> # grep Dynamic XFree86.0.log
> (WW) RADEON(0): Option "DynamicClocks" is not used

You need to run X.org for this. XFree86 doesn't support this.

> 
> > Very subjectively, temperature of machine on lap, it seems to be a 
> > lot cooler when the DynamicClocks are one,
> 
> 	My T42p doesn't appear to support DynamicClocks ;( 
> 
> 	I've tried the stock ati driver from Debian, as well as a 
> freshly-compiled version from the Freedesktop project, with the exact 
> same results.

Really? I would check the log file of the X.org server again.

Regards,
Tino