[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2014-01-08 Thread madbiologist
Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr now has the 3.13.0-1.16 kernel. Can you please test this version and let us know the results? ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2014-01-08 Thread Nick Andrik
Good news that the code to enable this has finaly landed in Linux. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the hardware where this bug was initially reported against, so I cannot test this new functionality -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2014-01-08 Thread madbiologist
OK, I hope you don't mind if I mark this bug as Fix Released. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987401 Title:

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2014-01-07 Thread madbiologist
OK - the runtime power management support I mentioned in comment #30 has finally been enabled on ATI/AMD Radeon graphics hardware in the upstream 3.13 kernel - it has support for dynamically powering down discrete GPUs on PowerXpress systems - see http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2014-01-07 Thread madbiologist
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987401 Title: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use To manage

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2013-09-02 Thread madbiologist
Runtime power management support (to be able to dynamically turn on/off secondary GPUs) is coming in the upstream 3.12 kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987401 Title: Ubuntu

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2012-12-09 Thread madbiologist
Power management for hybrid graphics is coming in the upstream 3.8 kernel. Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail will be based on the 3.8 kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987401 Title:

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2012-12-08 Thread Nick Andrik
** Also affects: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd (Ubuntu) = xserver- xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2012-12-08 Thread Nick Andrik
I also mark this bug against xserver-xorg-video-ati in order to check the status. From what I understand, from muxless ati/intel systems there are two cases (selected by vgaswtcheroo): a) The rendering is done by the Intel card (default case). Intel card is on, ATI card should be off to save

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2012-09-29 Thread madbiologist
Further to comment #26, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal currently contains xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu1 The changelog for this git snapshot says: * New upstream snapshot. Adds hybrid graphics support, FFe (LP: #1053250) See bug #1053250 (fixed) for further

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2012-09-28 Thread madbiologist
This should be possible in kernel 3.5, when used with xserver 1.13 and the latest libdrm and xserver-xorg-video-ati (xf86-video-ati) git code. See http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTEwMjA and http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTE3Njg and the links within for more

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2012-04-23 Thread Nick Andrik
In order to get this behavior we can have a solution as described here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11867169#post11867169 ** Description changed: I have a laptop with two video cards: lspci|grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2012-04-23 Thread Nick Andrik
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected oneiric running-unity staging ** Description changed: I have a laptop with two video cards: lspci|grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev

[Bug 987401] Re: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use

2012-04-23 Thread Joseph Salisbury
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987401 Title: Ubuntu should poweroff video cards not in use To manage notifications