Further work on Radeon KMS (kernel mode-setting) power management is
occurring, and will hopefully be ready to go in the mainline kernel by
the Linux 2.6.35 kernel this summer.
See http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=ODA3Mw for
details.
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[RV620 HD 3400] No power management with
The Linux kernel 2.6.34-rc1 has recently been released. It contains
support for Radeon KMS (kernel mode-setting) power management. More
details on this kernel are available at
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=ODA0OQ
A PPA of this kernel is available at
Testing HD4670/RV730XT on current Karmic with xserver-xorg-video-radeon
1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu6).
I had a hard time starting X, probably because of Bug #419126. It would freeze
until I created an xorg.conf with Option DRI 0 and bypassed gdm with startx.
This what I found with an
António, for measuring power draw on a notebook try 'powertop' or right click
the power icon in the notification area for 'Power History'. 'cat
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state' could work too, but the path might have changed
since I last used it (can't test).
Desktops usually require an external
Sure, powertop. I'll check it out. Thanks!
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[RV620 HD 3400] No power management with ati driver
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Sure. I can't install karminc in this laptop (need a stable system) but
I'll give the latest alpha livecd a go and report back here.
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[RV620 HD 3400] No power management with ati driver
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With karminc alpha4 there is big improvements. The fan is much quieter
then with the older driver. Is there a way I can have real numbers
testing the two drivers?
Anyway, my fan is much much quieter now. The system is usable with the
radeon driver finally :).
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[RV620 HD 3400] No power
Presumably this should be sorted out now; mind retesting current Karmic?
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Triaged
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