On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:42:05 -0400 Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Klaus Doblmann B.A. > <klaus.doblmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I sent this to Alex a few days ago but felt I should post it on this > > list as well: > > > > You might want to check the address you used as I never got the email. Hi Alex, weird, I double-checked and I sent it to the address you replied from... > > > I've been testing radeon KMS PM with 2.6.34-rc* for a few days now and > > I wanted to send you my testcase. Even though PM is enabled, the > > defaults of my card are somewhat insane so no real powermanagement > > takes place - i.e. the card doesn't get clocked down. is there any way > > to force the card to use a different setting where less power is being > > consumed? > > The current code doesn't handle a lot of cases properly. Please try > my latest patch set against Dave's drm-next tree: > http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/pm3/ > It allows you to enable dynamic pm or force a static power mode via sysfs. > > Alex Will do so at the end of the week when (hopefully) 2.6.34-rc6 is out and I have mor etime on my hands. Could you a bit more explicit on how I could set a static power mode via sysfs? I've never worked with sysfs before so some hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Klaus PS: On another note, is the KMS PM code supposed to work with r100 chips (Mobility 7500)? I've tried it yesterday and the machine (IBM T40) hardlocks when loading GDM (Ubuntu 10.04, 2.6.34-rc5 without any additional patches). > > > Thanks! > > > > Klaus > > [...] -- Klaus Doblmann B.A. - http://straightrazorguy.net - FSF member #7570 PGP-Key: http://www.doblmann.de/pgp_key.asc A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
