[ltp] T41: Terminating Fglrx causes Radeon FB to be mangled

[Felix E. Klee]

At Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:18:01 +0200,
Michael Gaber wrote:
> > Really? As far as I understand the Radeon power drain kernel patch,
> > it's necessary to use the radeon driver for the console in order to
> > get the power drain problem solved.
> > 
> > Also, if I had the choice, I'd not take a FB driver for the console
> > at all: plain text is much faster.
> 
> oh didn't know that, try without fb on console if you want, 

I doubt that a console driver other than the radeon one will provide me
with the power drain work around.  But I may try it nevertheless.

> > NOTE!  Enabling DynamicClocks crashes some models. If the CPU is
> > entering one of the lower power states (C3 or lower) during Xorg
> > startup the display may stay black. As a workaround disable
> > DynamicClocks in Xorg and use Rovclock instead. But it does not
> > scale the clocks to match the workload. Update 5/2/2006: Seems fixed
> > in Xorg6.9
> 
> well, I'm currently using xorg-7.0 so i didn't notice that

In fact, I don't even care that much about DynamicClocks: If the system
is running on batteries, in almost all cases I want maximum battery life
and I don't care about the speed of graphics - no need for on-demand
throttling.  When running on mains, on-demand throttling may be nice to
avoid the fan from running, but I find it rather silent, and mostly
noise from other sources is much more of a nuisance.

BTW, today my new 9 cell battery arrived from IBM spare parts service,
for a surprisingly low price of ca. 100 EUR (incl. VAT and S&H). :-)
Unfortunately, though, I cannot find the date of manufacturing on the
battery.

-- 
Felix E. Klee