[ltp] Aggressive battery diagnostics on T42p, should I return these?

[Laurent Gilson]

Hello,

>> The closed-source driver shuts down parts of the chip (cuts them from   
>> power), modifies the core/mem-voltage and frequency. It's way more   
>> efficent to use closed-source.
>>
> Do you have figures to show that in practice ?

No, my system is not supported by fglrx (R51 with radeon 7500)

> Last year when I received my T42 I spent about a month to tweak  
> everything to reach to lowest power consumption, so I compared the  
> open-source power management AND the closed-source one.

fglrx started supporting powerplay with version 8.19.10 released around  
the 11.11.2005. Which versions did you test ?

> consumption. And by the way shame on ati for their closed source driver  
>  ... I prefer the free one even with no DRI.

After having suffered from fannoise caused by a overheating gfxchip for  
some time, i prefer whatever gives me true powerplay for a radeon 7500.

cu