Matthias Hopf wrote:
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
Matthias, Thank you for that information. I don't know anything about the internal workings of the gpu or chipset throttling, but I can be the monkey at the keyboard if you want any dumps, dmidecodes, or the like that would help build your card/chipset dataset. Thanks for all the good work you guys are doing. Regardless of the issues that are still to be worked, the radeonhd driver is a very good and very usable driver for my laptop. With no fglrx alternative for xorg 7.4 and my laptop chipset on either openSuSE or Arch, it is great to have the radeonhd driver. It works really well and I can always glue a neoprene pad to my laptop palm reset ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org