[ltp] Re: thinkpad-sources-2.6.26

[Stefan Monnier]

> I sit on aeroplanes all the time, often long haul flights so battery life is
> very important.  I understand that there is no powerplay support on radeonhd
> yet. I have a X1300/RV515.

> I would love to ditch fglrx...

Don't know about your situation, but on my T60, the lowest power
consumption I can get is with either the vesa or the radeonhd driver.
It was a good 2W lower than with fglrx, no matter what magic incantation
I used with fglrx.

I get the impression that the fglrx driver's power management is only
able to reduce the power used by the GPU, and that the vesa and radeonhd
drivers don't even turn it on.  Of course maybe more recent versions of
radeonhd (with more 2D and 3D acceleration) now turn it on and hence
consume more.


        Stefan


> Michael Gaber ha scritto:
>> do you really need fglrx?
>> 
>> there are radeon and radeonhd which should support any card found in
>> a thinkpad good wnough to get compiz & co and even some 3d games working
>> nicely
>> 
>> Aidan Marks schrieb:
>>> I backed out to 2.6.25-thinkpad-r1 because fglrx doesn't work out of the
>>> box yet with 2.6.26 and bleh i'm not again going to try patching here and
>>> there to coach it along.  Knowing fglrx is a ongoing joke, I guess
>>> I should have searched for incompatibilities before I bothered trying
>>> to upgrade.
>>> 
>>> thanks Florian for the ebuild work though, hopefully a working ati
>>> release/ebuild will show up soon.
>>> 
>>> Florian Manschwetus ha scritto:
>>>> ok die neuen tp sources liegen bei jokey im overlay
>>>> 
>>>> http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/jokey/browser/trunk/sys-kernel/thinkpad-sources 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Florian
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