On May 20, 09 12:23:54 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Then I swapped hard drives in the laptop and booted openSuSE 11.0 running the ATI 8-9 release fglrx driver (ver. 8.532) to check. Heat/Fan Speed dropped significantly and the palm rest temperature returned to normal.
We don't know much about power saving yet. I assume that the fglrx
driver is not only reducing clock speed, but also powering down unused
chip areas and probably programming the clock gating circuits.
We have no information about that yet.
Matthias
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Matthias Hopf