Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (319 mails)

[Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Yang,

sorry for my late reply (I had been rather busy) and thanks a lot for your 
help!

On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Yang Zhao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2008/11/4 Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I'm now at Yang Zhao's pm-branch, but the temperature doesn't have
> > decreased
> >
> > :(
> >
> > xrandr --prop:
> >
> >        POWERMODE: 0 (0x00000000) range:  (0,-1)
> >
> >
> > (II) RADEONHD(0): Initializing power management functionalities
> > (II) RADEONHD(0): Calling DynamicClockGating (enable)
> > (II) RADEONHD(0): DynamicClockGating Successful
> > (II) RADEONHD(0): Query for VoltageObjectInfo contents: not implemented
> > (WW) RADEONHD(0): Failed to read VoltageObjectInfo
> > (WW) RADEONHD(0): Failed to read power modes table
>
> This suggests that your video card does not have the power mode table
> in AtomBIOS, which isn't unexpected as PowerPlay didn't officially
> debut on ATI's desktop cards until HD3800.

humpf, not good :(

> My r5xx_pm branch of the driver does try to set a few power management
> related registers to values I'm guessing are useful, but this has
> never been verified to work. Personally, I'm not even sure what
> dynamic, automatic power management features exit for the non-mobile
> family of r500.
>
> Since there are no documentations on the subject yet, and I do not own
> a non-mobile r500 card, I'm afraid there isn't much more I can do at
> the moment.

What do you recommend I should read? Hmm, there is documentation for m56 but 
not for rv515 :(

Cheers,
Bernd
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