[ltp] R51: ATI powerplay support for XFree86 4.3 ??

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:08:17 +0000, Florian Dorpmueller
<dorpmueller@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am using debian sarge on a Thinkpad R51. My graphics adapter is a ATI
> Mobility Radeon 7500. Since there are no official xorg-packages until yet my
> xserver is based on XFree86 4.3.
> 
> On http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vbraun/computing/T41/power.html I found drivers
> which include the ATI powerplay support but they are build for xorg. I have
> tested them but my xserver suffers from starting with them about each third
> or fourth time. Can anybody provide these drivers for XFree86 4.3 or is
> there a apropriate place in the web to load them?
> 

you'd probably have to backport the changes to xorg.  it shouldn't be
too hard, you just need to copy over the setdynamicclocks() function
and associated register and options bits, then rebuild the radeon
driver.

Alex

> Thanks,
> Flori
>